"There is Nothing Left to Lose" Foo Fighters (RCA). After undergoing yet another of its many lineup chnages, Dave Grohl's post-Nirvana band re-remerges with it's most consistently excellent work to date. The band veers from throat-shredders like "Breakout" and "M.I.A." to epic pop ( "Learn To Fly" ) and even country-rock ("Ain't It the Life") without ever losing focus.

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"Foo Fighters" -Nothing Left to Lose (RCA)

Long after the demise of henpecked malcontent Kurt Cobain, Nirvana drummer turned Foo Fighter multi-instrumentalist-vocalist Dave Grohl soldiers on. Sure, the past seems to dog the Fighters on their new disc-they even take a shot at Courtney Love on the angry, bludgeoning "Stacked Actors." But you can forget any glib comparisons:This band has always been tempermentally different from you know who, even when they've shared chord changes and time signatures. If Nirvana had recorded the hard, bracing new "Breakout," you can bet it would have had the queasy feel of a sick house; the Fighters deft, less neurotic approach to the song makes you feel like you're standing in a wind tunnel. They're much more inclined to borrow guitar riffs from the Police ( on the gorgeous "Generator" ), or even to turn a blissfully cheap trick with the dizzyingly good first single, "Learn To Fly."

Indeed, most of the album plays like a string of irrestible singles by a band at the top of its craft. Yeah, there's enough scary stuff here (blood spurts on the 70's crunch-rock "Gimme Stitches") to satisfy those who demand self-evisceration from four-minute pop songs. But this album sounds less like a tour of a tormented psyche and more like a tour de force.