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OUT OCT. 30 ON MATADOR RECORDS;\u00a0REVEAL NEW SINGLE \u201cINSIGNIFICANT OTHER<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n Photo credit:\u00a0Andreas Neumann<\/p>\n 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 the band\u2019s ninth album,\u00a0Perfecth, due Oct. 30 from Matador Records.<\/p>\n Out today is latest single “Insignificant Other,\u201d which could be considered the album’s centerpiece. It’s the second of only two takes and captures the quintet playing loose and unguarded and making space for one another on the fly. “It’s a song about distance,\u201d says frontman Joshua Homme. \u201cAbout how someone can be your entire world only to simply vanish. And about the strange vertigo of being on the receiving end of that.\u201d<\/p>\n Listen to \u201cInsignificant Other\u201d\u00a0HERE<\/a><\/p>\n Watch visualizer BELOW<\/p>\n The album announcement is accompanied by a Chapman Baehler-directed video starring Big Chongus as the embodiment of \u201cperfecth.\u201d Joined by the goodest boys and girls Ruby Homme, Max Homme, Pumpkin Van Leeuwen, Isabella Puppolini (Izzy) Van Leeuwen and Reesa Shuman, watch\u00a0HERE<\/a>\u00a0to find out if Big Chongus finds the perfect home. You can also watch the now infamous Five Finger Filet teaser that announced the date the album would NOT be released\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n Produced by Homme and band member Michael Shuman,\u00a0Perfecth\u00a0will\u00a0be available on CD, Standard Black Vinyl everywhere, on Clear Vinyl at Indie Retailers and as a limited Deluxe Edition\u00a0\u2014\u00a0a gatefold LP package which includes\u00a0handwritten lyrics, stationary, \u2018stamps\u2019 housed inside a custom envelope as well as a bespoke piece of art temporarily placed in a custom pocket \u2014 exclusively on the QOTSA and Matador webstores. Pre-order is available\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kintsugi \u2014 the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by filling its cracks with gold \u2014 holds that what has been shattered is made more beautiful, not less, by the act of repair. This is the spirit in which\u00a0Perfecth\u00a0was 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n 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,” says Homme. “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.”<\/p>\n The record is called\u00a0Perfecth\u00a0because “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 explains. “And that title is funny when you’re in a group, but it ain’t so funny when you’re alone.\u201d<\/p>\n While fans await the new album, they can air their gripes and grievances, moans and groans, chagrin’, carpin’, and any judgements they wish to pass via the official Queens of the Stone Age Complaint Hotline at +1 (760) 437-1966. Callers may even find a live ear at the other end of the line.<\/p>\n The Complaint Hotline opened following Queens of the Stone Age\u2019s rapturously received new single \u201cEasy Street (feat. Nikki Lane)<\/a>.\u201d Debuted live last year during their lauded Catacombs tour and eagerly awaited by fans, it was the band\u2019s first new music since 2023\u2019s\u00a0In Times New Roman\u2026. Homme also released high-profile collaborations with Shania Twain on her new single \u201c’Faded Blue Jeans\u201d and added guest vocals to Mastodon’s latest rocker,\u00a0\u201cSnakes for Dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n
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