‘Your Favourite Toy’, the title track from Foo Fighters’ upcoming twelfth album, of the same name, due 24 April 2026, is a snarling, full-throttle reset that channels exhaustion and resentment into something feral and oddly fun.
Gone is the raw, exposed grief of But Here We Are; in its place is something leaner, nastier and wired on adrenaline. This track feels like the moment the band decided to weaponise their pain, leaning into bratty punk energy and fiery hooks.
Built on a tight, insistent groove that never quite lets you settle, ‘Your Favourite Toy’ pulls the band’s relationship with danceable rock into a grimier place. Jagged guitar figures jab at the beat, and a queasy synth creates a tense, neon-lit backdrop that could be viewed as an homage to Medicine at Midnight. Compared to the stadium-polished sheen of anthems like “Best of You” or “The Pretender”, this feels deliberately scrappier and more stripped-back.
Lyrically, the song centres on disposability and loss. The repeated “favourite toy” refrain is blunt and bitter, capturing the feeling of being picked up and dropped at will. The line about trying not to “choke on the glitter” nods to the pressure of constant visibility, hinting at how a public-facing life can become suffocating, and also potentially echoing themes picked up later on the album in ‘Child Actor’.
The real highlight, though? Grohl’s vocal performance. Instead of his usual soaring, emotive delivery, he spits through verses before launching into chant-ready refrains that feel engineered for sold-out stadiums.
It’s certainly not the band at their most intricate, yet there’s something irresistibly cathartic about its unapologetic messiness. As a title track, ‘Your Favourite Toy’ seems to herald an album that might just be the Foo Fighters at their most unguarded in years: an era defined not by processing pain quietly, but by blasting it out through serrated riffs and snarling hooks.
Words by Sophia McHardy
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