QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE have released the official music video for their latest single, “Where The Goth Girls At?” The clip, which can be seen below, was directed by Christopher Gruse and Tony Wolski, and features comedian Steve Agee, dancer/artist Scarlett Kapella and singer/actress Lou Lou Safran, alongside members of QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE.

“Where The Goth Girls At?” is the third single — following “Easy Street” and “Insignificant Other” — from QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE’s ninth album, “Perfecth”, which will arrive on October 30 via Matador Records.

“Where The Goth Girls At?” sees QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE frontman Josh Homme reflecting on his youth in the suburbs of Palm Desert in California.

“Watching the goth girls working the counter at JCPenney and giving goth makeovers to the old ladies, that’s when I knew the only place I want to be is where the goth girls at,” Homme stated about the lyrical inspiration for the song. “Teenage love, ain’t it grand?”

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE have always remained enduringly, singularly magnetic. It isn’t just their sound. It’s their spirit. They are provocative in the most essential sense: unafraid to explore the dark, the sexual, the surreal, the absurd. It’s art that snarls and seduces in equal measure, and never more so than on “Perfecth”.

Produced by Homme and bandmember Michael Shuman, “Perfecth” will be available on CD, standard black vinyl everywhere, on clear vinyl at indie retailers and as a limited deluxe edition — a gatefold LP package which includes handwritten lyrics, stationary, “stamps” housed inside a custom envelope as well as a bespoke piece of art temporarily placed in a custom pocket — exclusively on the QOTSA and Matador webstores.

Kintsugi — the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by filling its cracks with gold — holds that what has been shattered is made more beautiful, not less, by the act of repair. This is the spirit in which “Perfecth” was made. An album that could only have been made right now thanks to Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, Dean Fertita and Jon Theodore taking significant evolutionary steps as a collective and arriving at hard-won clarity, its nine songs map different forms of love: of family, friends, and others both significant and insignificant. The loves that break you beyond survival and the loves that put you back together.

Birthed from sessions tracked everywhere from New Orleans to Los Angeles, the music is fearless and boundless, moody and menacing, gentle and strange. Here, QUEENS have moved a career’s worth of jagged pieces into alignment.

“Every song sounds like it’s from a different world,” Homme said. “And that’s on purpose, because it’s trying to stitch together all these emotions revolving around love, lust, foolishness, and the sort of wisdom that comes as a gift from all that.”

The record is called “Perfecth” because “perfect,” as a word, has never been honest. It doesn’t exist. So, Homme broke the word and made it “perfecth,” a more appropriate spelling for a term that never felt right to begin with.

“Nothing in this world is perfect, but everything seems to be ‘perfecth’,” he explained. “And that title is funny when you’re in a group, but it ain’t so funny when you’re alone.”

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE recently released a rapturously received new single “Easy Street” (featuring Nikki Lane). Debuted live last year during their lauded “Catacombs” tour and eagerly awaited by fans, it was the band’s first new music since 2023’s “In Times New Roman…”. Homme also released high-profile collaborations with Shania Twain on her single “Faded Blue Jeans” and added guest vocals to MASTODON’s “Snakes For Dinner”.

“Perfecth” track listing:

01. It’s Only Love
02. Insignificant Other
03. Where The Goth Girls At?
04. Mono
05. From The Cliff
06. Sunday
07. Easy Street
08. Phantom Limb
09. Run Away From The Mob

“Perfecth” will be made available on standard black vinyl, CD and as a deluxe limited-edition LP.

“Perfecth” arrives at a moment of hard-won clarity for the band. The record’s nine songs map different forms of love: of family, friends, and others. The loves that break you and the loves that bring you back. The music is fearless and boundless, moody and menacing, gentle and strange. “Insignificant Other” is the album’s centerpiece — sprawling, loose, and supernatural. “Mono” captures the headspinning feeling of heartbreak with a mix that slips seamlessly from mono to stereo and from claustrophobia to widescreen orchestral grandeur. The band remains enduringly, singularly magnetic. It’s art that snarls and seduces in equal measure.

The limited deluxe edition of “Perfecth” features a gatefold sleeve, including handwritten lyrics, stationary, “stamps” housed inside a custom envelope, with room for more. The deluxe edition includes a bespoke piece of art temporarily housed in a custom pocket. The rest won’t be hard to find.

Photo by Andreas Neumann