| Queens Of The Stone Age |
Villains (August 25, 2017) |
Queens Of The Stone Age — Villains (August 25, 2017) 
→↔★ Josh Homme: 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 — their villain — same as it ever was. You can’t control that. The only thing you can really control is when you let go.
Location: Palm Desert, California
Genre: Alternative Rock
Album release: August 25, 2017
Recorded: January ~ March 2017
Studio: United Recording Studios, (Los Angeles, California)
Record Label: Matador
Duration: 48:14
Tracks:
01 Feet Don’t Fail Me 5:39
02 The Way You Used to Do 4:39
03 Domesticated Animals 5:21
04 Fortress 5:28
05 Head Like a Haunted House 3:22
06 Un~Reborn Again 6:42
07 Hideaway 4:22
08 The Evil Has Landed 6:31
09 Villains of Circumstance 6:10
Personnel:
Queens of the Stone Age:
♦ Josh Homme — Lead vocals
♦ Troy Van Leeuwen — Vocals, guitar, keyboards, piano, harp, lap steel guitar, bass guitar, percussion, drums, violin, banjo, cello, vibraphone
♦ Dean Fertita — Vocals, guitar, lap steel guitar, pedal steel guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, organ, piano, synthesizer, mellotron, autoharp, clavinet, vibraphone, harp, violin, viola
♦ Michael Shuman — Vocals, bass guitar, guitar, drums, percussion, keyboards
♦ Jon Theodore — Drums, percussions
Production and design:
♦ Mark Ronson — production
♦ Mark Rankin — co~production
♦ Alan Moulder — mixing
♦ Boneface — design, illustrations
→↔★ Villains follows their 2013 album Like Clockwork. Queens of the Stone Age announced their new album Villains. They revealed the title in a Liam Lynch~directed album trailer — one that featured a lie detector test, a silly cameo from Villains producer Mark Ronson, and a preview of their new single “Feet Don’t Fail Me.” Now, the band have revealed even more details of the new record.
Artwork:
→↔★ The cover art for Villains was designed by graphic artist Boneface, who designed the artwork for Queen’s of the Stone Age’s previous album, ...Like Clockwork.
Description:
→↔★ “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 — their villain — same as it ever was. You can’t control that. The only thing you can really control is when you let go.” — Joshua Homme
→↔★ 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.
→↔★ 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 gave the band its first #1 album in the U.S. Like the stunning artwork of returning illustrator Boneface, the sonic signatures of the lineup that took ...Like Clockwork around the world and back are 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 — but 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.”
→↔★ Of his role working within such a closed and confident ecosystem as Queens Of The Stone Age, Ronson says, “Queens are and have always been my favorite rock n roll band ever since I walked into Tower on Sunset and bought Rated R in the summer of 2000, so it was incredibly surreal to be welcomed into their secret, pirate clan — or the ‘jacuzzi’ as Josh likes to call it. There were moments during the making of the album in which I was aware I was watching my musical heroes craft something that was sure to become one of my favorite moments on any Queens album. And to have some part in that felt like being in a dream — a very heavy, dark, wonderful dream.”
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QOTSA
Website: http://www.qotsa.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/qotsa
Label: http://matadorrecords.com/
Notes:
→↔ After the band finished touring in support of …Like Clockwork, Homme immediately turned to an array of new projects. In 2015, he reunited with his Eagles of Death Metal cohort Jesse Hughes for Zipper Down, the band’s first album since 2008, and then partnered with Iggy Pop to produce the punk stalwart’s 2016 album, Post Pop Depression. Homme also co~wrote and contributed to two songs on Lady Gaga’s recent record, Joanne, “Diamond Heart” and “John Wayne”
→↔ Over the past few years, other members of Queens of the Stone Age have also been involved in various projects. Guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen joined the experimental rock supergroup Gone Is Gone with members of At the Drive~In and Mastodon, while Dean Fertita recorded new records with the Dead Weather and the Kills and contributed to Post Pop Depression.
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| Queens Of The Stone Age |
Villains (August 25, 2017) |
Genre: Alternative Rock
Album release: August 25, 2017
Recorded: January ~ March 2017
Studio: United Recording Studios, (Los Angeles, California)
Record Label: Matador
Duration: 48:14
Tracks:
01 Feet Don’t Fail Me 5:39
02 The Way You Used to Do 4:39
03 Domesticated Animals 5:21
04 Fortress 5:28
05 Head Like a Haunted House 3:22
06 Un~Reborn Again 6:42
07 Hideaway 4:22
08 The Evil Has Landed 6:31
09 Villains of Circumstance 6:10
Personnel:
Queens of the Stone Age:
♦ Josh Homme — Lead vocals
♦ Troy Van Leeuwen — Vocals, guitar, keyboards, piano, harp, lap steel guitar, bass guitar, percussion, drums, violin, banjo, cello, vibraphone
♦ Dean Fertita — Vocals, guitar, lap steel guitar, pedal steel guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, organ, piano, synthesizer, mellotron, autoharp, clavinet, vibraphone, harp, violin, viola
♦ Michael Shuman — Vocals, bass guitar, guitar, drums, percussion, keyboards
♦ Jon Theodore — Drums, percussions
Production and design:
♦ Mark Ronson — production
♦ Mark Rankin — co~production
♦ Alan Moulder — mixing
♦ Boneface — design, illustrations
Artwork:
→↔★ The cover art for Villains was designed by graphic artist Boneface, who designed the artwork for Queen’s of the Stone Age’s previous album, ...Like Clockwork.
Description:
→↔★ “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 — their villain — same as it ever was. You can’t control that. The only thing you can really control is when you let go.” — Joshua Homme
→↔★ 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.
→↔★ 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 gave the band its first #1 album in the U.S. Like the stunning artwork of returning illustrator Boneface, the sonic signatures of the lineup that took ...Like Clockwork around the world and back are 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 — but 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.”
→↔★ Of his role working within such a closed and confident ecosystem as Queens Of The Stone Age, Ronson says, “Queens are and have always been my favorite rock n roll band ever since I walked into Tower on Sunset and bought Rated R in the summer of 2000, so it was incredibly surreal to be welcomed into their secret, pirate clan — or the ‘jacuzzi’ as Josh likes to call it. There were moments during the making of the album in which I was aware I was watching my musical heroes craft something that was sure to become one of my favorite moments on any Queens album. And to have some part in that felt like being in a dream — a very heavy, dark, wonderful dream.”
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QOTSA
Website: http://www.qotsa.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/qotsa
Label: http://matadorrecords.com/
Notes:
→↔ After the band finished touring in support of …Like Clockwork, Homme immediately turned to an array of new projects. In 2015, he reunited with his Eagles of Death Metal cohort Jesse Hughes for Zipper Down, the band’s first album since 2008, and then partnered with Iggy Pop to produce the punk stalwart’s 2016 album, Post Pop Depression. Homme also co~wrote and contributed to two songs on Lady Gaga’s recent record, Joanne, “Diamond Heart” and “John Wayne”
→↔ Over the past few years, other members of Queens of the Stone Age have also been involved in various projects. Guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen joined the experimental rock supergroup Gone Is Gone with members of At the Drive~In and Mastodon, while Dean Fertita recorded new records with the Dead Weather and the Kills and contributed to Post Pop Depression.
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