Rolling Stone Australia September 2017

Queens of the

Stone Age

VillainsMatador/Remote Control

★★★½

BY BARRY DIVOLA

“Iwasborninthedesert,May

17 in ’73, when the needle hit the

groove I commence to moving, I

was chasing what’s calling me,”

Josh Homme states in the open-

ing line of the first Queens of the

Stone Age album in four years.

It sounds like nothing less than

a mission statement, giving us

his origin story before getting

downtobusiness.

He’snotbeenidlesince

2013’s...Like Clockwork,mak-

inganEaglesofDeathMetal

album, collaborating with Iggy

Poponlastyear’sPost Pop De-

pressionandevenwritingsongs

for the latest Lady Gaga record.

Infact,youcanheartheIggy

connection on the title track,

which features a three-step as-

cendingguitarriff,afat,fuzzy

bass line and a groove that you

feel in your groin. But it’s Iggy’s

late buddy David Bowie whose

spirithangsmostheavilyover

many of these new songs. It’s

there most notably on “Un-Re-

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“Innocence is what you lose.

Like keys and dreams and

old tattoos.”

—queens of the stone age,

“Hideaway”

QOTSA

Deliver a

Desert

Dance

Party

Homme and Co. team

up with Mark Ronson,

channel Bowie and

even get a bit sensitive