{"id":32370,"date":"2017-06-16T08:22:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T22:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=32370"},"modified":"2017-06-16T08:22:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T22:22:19","slug":"queens-stone-age-announce-new-album-villains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2017\/06\/queens-stone-age-announce-new-album-villains\/","title":{"rendered":"QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE announce new album Villains"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>“The title Villains isn’t a political statement. It has nothing to do with Trump or any of that shit. It’s simply 1) a word that looks fantastic and 2) a comment on the three versions of every scenario: yours, mine and what actually happened… Everyone needs someone or something to rail against\u2014their villain\u2014same as it ever was. You can’t control that. The only thing you can really control is when you let go.” –\u00a0Joshua Homme<\/p>\n

Hundreds of epic shows, memory lapses, unexplained injuries, one yearlong detour with Iggy Pop and multiple Grammy nominations later, Queens Of The Stone Age reemerge from the desert newly scarred and somehow strangely prettier with lucky seventh album, Villains, out August 25 on Matador Records \/ Remote Control Records. Now available for preorder on deluxe vinyl, standard vinyl, CD and digital (all formats include an instant download of first single ‘The Way You Used To Do’), Villains consists of the following songs:<\/p>\n

1. Feet Don’t Fail Me
\n2. The Way You Used To Do
\n3. Domesticated Animals
\n4. Fortress
\n5. Head Like A Haunted House
\n6. Un-Reborn Again
\n7. Hideaway
\n8. The Evil Has Landed
\n9. Villains Of Circumstance<\/p>\n

Produced by Mark Ronson and co-produced by Mark Rankin and mixed by Alan Moulder, Villains is the first full album offering from Queens Of The Stone Age since 2013’s …Like Clockwork\u00a0gave the band its first #1 album in Australia (and #1s in the U.S., Belgium, Ireland, Portugal, Scotland, #2s in the UK, Canada, Switzerland, Norway, New Zealand, Finland… but really, who’s counting?). Like the stunning artwork of returning illustrator Boneface, the sonic signatures of the lineup that took …Like Clockwork\u00a0around the world and back\u2014Founder\/guitarist\/vocalist\/lyricist Joshua Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen (guitar, keys), Michael Shuman (bass), Dean Fertita (keys, guitar), Jon Theodore (drums)\u2014are as unmistakable as ever, though coexisting with sufficient new twists to induce recurring double takes. As Homme himself puts it, “The most important aspect of making this record was redefining our sound, asking and answering the question ‘what do we sound like now?’ If you can’t make a great first record, you should just stop\u2014but if you can make a great record but you keep making records and your sound doesn’t evolve, you become a parody of that original sound.”<\/p>\n