Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins says U2’s latest album ‘sounds like a fart’

TAYLOR Hawkins from the Foo Fighters has slammed U2’s latest album and has criticised the group for giving away their album for free on iTunes.

FOO Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins isn’t a fan of U2’s latest album, saying “it just kinda sounds like a fart”.

Speaking to theMusic.com.au, Hawkins didn’t hold back when talking about U2’s 13th studio album, Songs of Innocence.

“I don’t know that any of that new album has anything great on it,” he said.

“I listened to it once, but it’s so marred by that whole sort of, like I said, Orwellian, 1984 extreme that it just kinda sounds like a fart any way you listen to it.”

Foo Fighters have just released their latest album, Sonic Highways.

Hawkins also criticised U2 for automatically adding their newest album to the music library of every single iTunes user.

“I mean, I think they probably thought it was gonna be a great idea,” he said.

“‘Here’s the deal: everybody who has an iPhone, gets your record. And they get it for free!’ And they thought, probably, ‘Well that’s pretty awesome!’ but they didn’t really take into consideration the Big Brother feeling that kinda goes along with like, ‘[In menacing voice] You have the new U2 record’ ... You couldn’t get rid of it and they actually had to come up with an app to get rid of it, that’s horrible.”

The Foo Fighters have just released their latest album, Sonic Highways, which features eight songs which they recorded in eight different US cities.

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