Foo Fighters Release 12th Album Your Favourite Toy Following Personal Upheaval

Foo Fighters released their 12th album, titled Your Favourite Toy, featuring slashing guitar lines and scorched-earth vocals recorded during a period of personal upheaval, BBC News reported. The opening track, Caught In The Echo, captures Grohl's screams of indecision: "Decide, decide, decide, decide / Do I? Do I?

Do I? " as his voice spins with turmoil. Another song, Of All People, emerged after Dave Grohl, 57, bumped into a drug dealer he knew from Seattle in the 1990s. Grohl wrote it that night and recorded it the next morning in the small studio above his garage.

Grohl stated he has been largely drug-free since turning 20, though he was admitted to hospital in 2010 for overdosing on caffeine. " Grohl demoed more than 50 songs for the album, typically in the middle of the night, many instrumental, touching on influences including Massive Attack, Pink Floyd, and Bad Brains.

"One night, I was lying in bed, listening to them all and, randomly, there were 10 in a row on the playlist that were really reminiscent of the music we grew up listening to," Grohl said.

'" Bass guitarist Nate Mendel agreed, stating, "This is how our band sounds. This is what we do. " The 2026 Foo Fighters lineup consists of Nate Mendel, Dave Grohl, Pat Smear, Rami Jaffee, Ilan Rubin, and Chris Shiflett.

One of the new songs on Your Favourite Toy is titled Unconditional, which Grohl described as "kind of a mournful song," expressing deep sorrow: "I'll find a better way / To explain this to you... " Grohl posted a statement on social media in 2022 admitting he had fathered a child outside his marriage, stating, "I plan to be a loving and supportive parent to her.