Foo Fighters In Your Honor Roswell Records vinyl record Seasonal Sale

2×12″ 2005 Rock LP Repressed – Sealed
Although it was as big a commercial success as Foo Fighters’ three previous albums, 2002’s One by One seemed flat and tired, as if their leader, Dave Grohl, had reached a songwriting slump or as if the band had exhausted its possibilities. The time was ripe for a reinvention, or at least a risk, and the group responded accordingly with In Your Honor, a double album containing one disc of hard rock and one disc of acoustic material. Splitting music along such a clear dividing line is dangerous: since each disc explores one specific territory, each could sound monochromatic, but instead of falling into this trap, Foo Fighters benefit from these self-imposed constraints. Both the rock and acoustic albums have their own distinct character — more so than, say, Guns N’ Roses’ separately released Use Your Illusion’s, which felt like one gigantic sprawling album — and while each is recognizably the work of Foo Fighters, neither feels as formulaic as One by One. While the ac