{"id":387943,"date":"2026-10-30T15:32:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/387943\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T15:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:32:31","slug":"queens-of-the-stone-age-talk-new-album-perfecth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/387943\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens of The Stone Age Talk New Album ‘Perfecth’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tQueens of The Stone Age<\/a> turned to kintsugi, the delicate Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by filling the cracks with molten gold, to create its new album, Perfecth. By embracing this Eastern technique, the California band reflects in their new LP on the process they faced following the recent health issues and personal struggles<\/a> of vocalist Josh Homme, seeking transformation through the act of repair.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cWhat has been shattered is made more beautiful, not less, by the act of repair,\u201d Homme tells\u00a0Billboard Espa\u00f1ol\u00a0in a video interview<\/a>. \u201cThat is why the songs on this album speak about different forms of love \u2014 for family, for friends and for other people, whether significant or insignificant. There are bonds that sustain us, and others that end up breaking us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHomme is excited about this new work, the band\u2019s ninth album, which led him and his bandmates (also including Troy Van Leeuwen (guitar), Dean Fertita (guitar and keyboards) and Jon Theodore (drums)) to work in different studios, cities and moments, even revisiting songs from previous sessions. Such is the case with fourth single \u201cRun Away From the Mob,\u201d originally recorded in 2013 with close collaborator Dave Grohl on the drums. Or \u201cSunday,\u201d a track originally co-written by Homme for Iggy Pop\u2019s 2016 album Post Pop Depression, in which the Queens frontman actively participated.<\/p>\n

\n\tProduced by Homme and bassist Michael Shuman, this nine-track LP, released Friday (Oct. 30) through Matador Records, was born from sessions recorded in places from New Orleans to Los Angeles, achieving a production that Homme describes as \u201cvery raw, very natural sounding.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think a lot of these things were played all in a room together with all the band members together,\u201d explains the 53-year-old frontman. \u201cAnd so, you want things to sound as if you are sitting in the middle of the room with us. And so, it\u2019s very much like the \u201970s, where it feels like you\u2019re sitting in the room. And, so that\u2019s kind of the overall sound of this record.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe result is a dark, emotional album that goes beyond the band\u2019s relentless stoner rock. In just 36 minutes \u2014 Queens\u2019 shortest album to date \u2014 tracks such as powerful second single \u201cInsignificant Other,\u201d as well as \u201cWhere The Goth Girls At?,\u201d \u201cMono,\u201d \u201cFrom The Cliff,\u201d \u201cEasy Street\u201d and \u201cPhantom Limb,\u201d masterfully flirt with genres like art rock, jazz, folk and country blues.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing the surreal experience Homme and his bandmates had in 2024 when they entered the Catacombs of Paris to record a performance that turned into an almost heroic feat, due to the technical and human complexity involved \u2014 captured in live EP and film Alive In The Catacombs \u2014 the singer-songwriter reflects on the importance of geographical changes when recording their new songs.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think in New Orleans, what you witness is people being their individual selves, and so it inspires you to wanna do the same,\u201d he says. \u201cWhat is my individual sound? And I think the, the sort of magic and the grittiness and even the weather in New Orleans, it really, it affects you quite a bit. And so you feel like New Orleans is all over you. And I like being trapped in that feeling.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt feels like there\u2019s no escape, and that there\u2019s a interesting story that\u2019s happening, you know,\u201d he continues. \u201cBecause especially in a city like New Orleans, you\u2019re not just in the studio. We\u2019re, we\u2019re walking home and walking there at night, and it\u2019s 10 blocks, and you\u2019re in the swamp and, you know, there\u2019s a bar across the street. There\u2019s parades going by. You kinda get swept up in the moment there, you know. It\u2019s nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWith the release of their new album, the band will embark on an extensive arena tour across the U.S. in the spring of 2027, featuring alternative rock legends Pixies and hip-hop group Wheelchair Sports Camp. The Perfecth World Tour kicks off May 1 in San Diego and will conclude its North American leg with a show in Boston on May 24.<\/p>\n

\n\tPrior to that, the band will perform at several international venues, including stops in Latin America. In Mexico<\/a> City, Queens of the Stone Age will play their first non-festival concert since 2014 on March 6 at the Estadio de los Deportes, alongside New York alt-rockers Interpol. Days later, they will headline Lollapalooza Argentina, Chile and Brazil.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMexico is like an exotic stop to me. But also, growing up in Southern California, just that culture feels like home to me as well,\u201d Homme says. \u201cAnd I also think with a band like Interpol that is very dark, it makes for just a nice combination, you know?\u2026 They seem to have, this very, intense relationship with Mexico City and Mexico as well. So that\u2019s why we were talking about doing this together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queens of The Stone Age turned to kintsugi, the delicate Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by filling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[34232,13379,10865,2106,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-387943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-genre-latin","tag-genre-rock","tag-interview","tag-mexico","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387943","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=387943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}