Foo Fighters Drop “Of All People,” and It Sounds Like Dave Grohl Raided His Record Collection

There are exactly two modes Foo Fighters operate in at their best. The first is the arena-filling singalong, the kind of song built to make 60,000 strangers feel like they’re all in the same band. The second is the feral, punk-adjacent burner where Dave Grohl sounds like he’s trying to outrun something he can’t name. “Of All People,” the latest single from the band’s upcoming twelfth album Your Favorite Toy, is firmly and gloriously in the second camp.

Released today, the track is the fourth preview from the record, following “Asking For A Friend,” the title track, and “Caught In The Echo.” It had already been road-tested in front of a live audience back on February 22 at a taping of the Irish TV series Other Voices, filmed inside St. James Church in Dingle, Ireland. That performance finally aired this week, and now the studio version confirms what that intimate church gig suggested: this one bites.

Multiple outlets have drawn a line straight back to Husker Du, and the comparison is not lazy. The song opens with a raw, charging riff and a lyrical conceit rooted in survivor’s guilt. Grohl wrestles openly with the unfairness of still being here when so many others are not, a theme that carries obvious weight given the losses the band has endured. Rolling Stone described the track as Grohl reflecting on life’s fundamental unfairness, while NME characterized it as punk-tinged and emotionally direct. Blabbermouth, never ones for subtlety, simply called it a rager.

Your Favorite Toy arrives April 24 via Roswell Records and RCA Records, co-produced by the band alongside Oliver Roman, with mixing handled by the legendary Mark “Spike” Stent. The full tracklist runs ten songs deep: “Caught In The Echo,” “Of All People,” “Window,” “Your Favorite Toy,” “If You Only Knew,” “Spit Shine,” “Unconditional,” “Child Actor,” “Amen, Caveman,” and “Asking For A Friend.” Earlier this year, Grohl described the album as full of uptempo, loud bangers that feel like a throwback to the band’s earlier, more volatile days.

This is also the first Foo Fighters album featuring drummer Ilan Rubin, who stepped into the enormous void left by the late Taylor Hawkins. Rubin made his live debut with the band on September 13, 2025 at the Fremont Theater in San Luis Obispo, California, and by all accounts has injected a fresh intensity into the group’s live performance. The fact that the band chose a punishing, fast track like “Of All People” as its latest single suggests Rubin’s energy is translating to the studio as well.

The album release coincides with the launch of the “Take Cover” world tour, which kicks off April 28 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, before rolling through a European stadium run that includes Anfield in Liverpool, the Olympiastadion in Berlin, and festival stops at Pinkpop, Mad Cool, and NOS Alive. North American dates pick back up in August with Queens of the Stone Age and Mannequin Pussy providing support across a run of stadium shows in Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, and beyond.

When asked recently about whether the Foos might be approaching their final chapter, Grohl did what Grohl does best: he shrugged it off. Every record, he said, has been their last record. At this point, you just make a record and see what happens. That philosophy seems baked into “Of All People” itself. There is no long-term strategizing in a song this raw. There is only the sound of a band that has survived everything thrown at it and decided, against all reasonable odds, to come out swinging one more time.