Josh Homme to NME: “We made something that sounds as brutal as it feels to
be alive right now. I think on this [part of the] journey there’s no armour left. It’s
only about walking deeper into the darkness. That’s the way it should be.”
Now for one of the singles, the bluesy banger NEGATIVE SPACE
QOTSA shared an eye-catching, animated video clip.
TUTV said: “The new Queens album is a nightmarish journey into Homme‘s
beat-up mind. His thoughts reflect the hard times he went through in the past
years. The overall sonic tone is murky and tenebrous. From the mid-tempo stoner
blues grooves to rugged garage rockers. And Homme‘s vocality is browbeating.
He chases his demons.”
Last Sunday QOTSA closed theRock Werchter Festival in Belgium.
Here’s the full HQ show as registered by the fest’s organization.
Stupendous performance.
SETLIST
No One Knows
The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
Smooth Sailing
My God Is the Sun
Carnavoyeur
The Way You Used to Do
If I Had a Tail
I Sat by the Ocean
The Evil Has Landed
Paper Machete
Make It Wit Chu
Emotion Sickness
Little Sister
Straight Jacket Fitting
Go With the Flow
A Song for the Dead
Josh Homme to NME: “We made something that sounds as brutal as it feels to
be alive right now. I think on this [part of the] journey there’s no armour left. It’s
only about walking deeper into the darkness. That’s the way it should be.”
NME: “Informed by a turbulent period – including a messy divorce, cancer treatment
and the deaths of several of Josh Homme’s close friends – the band’s eighth album is
suitably bleak… They’ve pitched their comeback between an emotional exorcism for
Homme, but with enough fan-service for the die-hards; this is up there with their darkest, knottiest material to date, and will be appreciated all the more for it.” Score: 4/5.
TUTV: The new Queens album is a nightmarish journey into Homme‘s beat-up mind.
His thoughts reflect the hard times he went through in the past years. The overall sonic tone is murky and tenebrous. From the mid-tempo stoner blues grooves to the rugged garage rockers. And Homme‘s vocality is browbeating. He chases his demons.
I’m sure he’ll trace them down and kick them really hard in their ugly asses. Homme is a survivor, and this bone-chilling record confirms that loud and clear.
Along with the news the Queens dropped the first single EMOTION SICKNESS.
A hammering and riff-rolling corker. Queens by numbers, but I always liked their
macho rock numbers.
