After releasing Best Of You as the lead-off single from the Foo Fighters' new album, one might have expected the record company to follow it up with a mellower number from the "not so loud" disc of In Your Honour. Thankfully, we've been spared the incongruity of Dave Grohl duetting with Ravi Shankar's daughter on our radios - at least for now...
Objectively, DOA is Foo Fighters by numbers. The loud-but-never-impolite guitars, Grohl's simple-but-effective voice and the blatant-but-fairly-memorable chorus are all present and correct, and combine to create a piece of music for those who like their rock to be a bit edgy but not sharp enough to hurt.
Having said that, therein also lie DOA's strengths for few other bands do this kind of thing better (though Ash did a pretty good imitate and supersede job with Meltdown). Far from being DOA, the Foo Fighters continue to tick over healthily.
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