Rearranged, reimagined, and reworked, these songs flourish in this setting whereas before they may have simply bashed you over the head or lulled you into a bored stupor. After a few listens to Skin And Bones, Foo Fighters first "official" live album, you may come to hear this group in a whole new light. I know I have. And I like what I'm hearing an awful lot.  Full text...

The results focus attention on the quality of the material, so Skin and Bones offers a glimpse of what a Grohl solo album might sound like, revealing him as a formidable singer-songwriter, easily the match of today's blighted crop of Blunts and Grays.  Full text...

Skin and Bones is a recording culled from the Foos’ largely acoustic (but by no means stripped-down) tour of this past year, and it goes a long way in showing just what that perfect acoustic Foo recording might have sounded like—it’s an album that takes every single one of those beautiful past hits, puts them alongside some of the more moving bits of the acoustic side of In Your Honor, tosses in a new tune, and comes out sounding like the perfect departure that never was.   Full text...

Foos get semi-unplugged  Full text...

Grohl and co put rock to one side with acoustic love album  Full text...

Skin and Bones -- recorded live during three recent Los Angeles shows -- lacks the revelatory power of its predecessor: Grohl sometimes seems unwilling to stick with bare-bones arrangements, pushing his giant band (which included the Wallflowers' Rami Jaffee, violinist Petra Haden and former Foo Pat Smear) into unnecessary big-rock crescendos in the final bars.  Full text...

Skin and Bones approximates the Springsteen-ization of the Foos shiny, toothy sound, adding some satisfying clout to the acoustic numbers. But like a sixteeen-year-old’s hard-on, Grohl’s songs haven’t the finesse nor the staying power for the intimate treatment.   Full text...