{"id":386974,"date":"2026-10-29T21:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T21:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/386974\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T21:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T21:02:15","slug":"queens-of-the-stone-age-perfecth-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/386974\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens Of The Stone Age – Perfecth | Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ninth studio album from alt-rock veterans Queens Of The Stone Age, \u2018Perfecth\u2019 is a concept album centred on love. But not the glamorous parts. There are no soppy ballads here,\u00a0no rom-com laughs, and if you listen hoping for lusty, hard-rock bangers \u2013 such as \u2018Go With The Flow\u2019 \u2013 you will be disappointed. <\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s Only Love\u2019 creeps us into the record, as train horns and swirling wind give the track a cinematic feel \u2013 a rainy railway at night. Late into the track, a string section begins to play us out, until Josh Homme comes back to end it with \u201ca twisted rope I\u2019m hanging on, It\u2019s only love\u201d before we are seemingly hit by a train in the track\u2019s visceral end. It is a twistedly beautiful start to the album, before the vibes quickly switch to the catchiest outing of the record, \u2018Insignificant Other\u2019. While it is a fantastic track, with some quintessentially Homme wordplay, it does feel that at almost six minutes it\u2019s slightly long for the album\u2019s most accessible moment.<\/p>\n

\u2018Where The Goth Girls At?\u2019<\/a> is the closest we get to a straight rock banger over the album\u2019s course. With the standout drumming performance from Jon Theodore complementing a brilliantly dark and heavy riff. The highlight of this song is the distorted and overdriven outro behind Homme\u2019s cries of \u201cSo don\u2019t chase them all away\u201d. The standout track of the album \u2018Mono\u2019 is best listened to through headphones, given the panning work on it. It is unlike anything previously heard from the band, or maybe from anybody. The end of this track is simply nightmarish, akin to an incredibly well-written horror film, as it seems to feature a vocal performance of someone waking up from a horrific dream, dying, or something in between. Allowing the listener some time to regather their senses and recover from the previous track, \u2018From The Cliff\u2019 sounds like a collaboration between early Kyuss and Judee Sill, behind beautiful lyrics: \u201call we have to do is a leap of faith from the cliff of love into the blue\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A brilliant Bowie-esque track, \u2018Sunday\u2019 \u2013 originally performed by Iggy Pop on 2016\u2019s \u2018Post-Pop Depression\u2019<\/a> \u2013 comes before the funnest moment on the record, \u2018Easy Street\u2019, which is full of tongue-in-cheek lyrics and wordplay. \u201cI don\u2019t believe in luck, so you can have mine\u201d, \u201cyou drive me crazy for sure, but I can do that myself\u201d, \u201cdrinking don\u2019t help but it sure blocks out the help\u201d. The clapping percussion, major key and use of falsetto give the track a much more easygoing and lighthearted vibe than most of the album. But it is a welcome break, and contains just as much meaning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The record\u2019s closing track, \u2018Run Away From The Mob\u2019, appears to be a slight diversion from the usual theme of the message, as it seems to centre on mob mentality, cancel culture and self-destruction. Yet, on deeper examination, it can be taken as a commentary on inner dialogue and the fight to love oneself. \u201cIn my heart, forevermore, always with me, I\u2019m right there wherever you are.\u201d Homme wails on the track\u2019s outro atop a hard-hitting instrumental, backed by a brutal drum beat from longtime collaborator Dave Grohl, who makes his sole appearance on the record. It\u2019s a fittingly cathartic way to end a record which encapsulates such a huge emotional spectrum.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Queens\u2019 records tend to get better the more time you spend on them; this one appears it will be no different. It is far from easy listening and is at times a painfully emotional experience, but there is beauty in and between the layers. This album, approached with an open mind and given time, will offer something more on every listen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

8\/10<\/p>\n

Words: Henry Swales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ninth studio album from alt-rock veterans Queens Of The Stone Age, \u2018Perfecth\u2019 is a concept album centred…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123,2856],"class_list":["post-386974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-queens-of-the-stone-age"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}