This is how you sound modern without losing your signature style or succumbing to mediocrity (take notes Linkin Park). Run is classic Foo Fighters, having their usual mastery of dynamics while still sounding like a rock track that came out in 2017. Grohl and co. manage to avoid the two major pitfalls of rock bands this decade; ripping off a previous decade for nostalgia or going minimalist, boring and indie.
The Foo’s take the best part of modern rock music, the pounding tribal drums of Imagine Dragons and Kongos, and throw that into a blender with their usual sound for a powerful hard rock smoothie. Those pounding drums, as well as the rest of the rhythm section serve to push the frantic pace of the verses straight into one of the Foo’s signature melodic choruses. The guitar work throughout the track isn’t overly flashy but it does exactly what the song needs, supporting the rhythm of the verses and the melody of the chorus.
Grohl’s vocals are even more extreme than usual, going from soft and melodic in the intro to a call and response between rock singing and literal screaming on the verses. He pulls it back just enough on the chorus to keep the soft and hard dynamic going before letting loose on the next verse and bridge. In a lot of ways Grohl’s vocal performance here reminds me of The Pretender from back in 2007.
While we live an age where all the rock gods are either dead or elderly, it’s nice to remember we can always count on Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters to carry the torch. If Run does turn out to be the lead single off of a new Foo Fighters album then maybe rock music isn’t quite dead after all.
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