Josh Homme and the blokes in Queens of the Stone Age are not any strangers to the darkish. Their music has all the time had a tinge of the macabre, the melancholy, the unusual, that may be traced again all the best way to their debut launch again in 1998. But their most up-to-date releases, …Like Clockwork and Villains have seen the band actually fall down that rabbit gap.
With right now’s launch of “Carnavoyeur,” the band’s newest single off their forthcoming album In Occasions New Roman… that acid journey into the black continues. Whereas the album’s first single “Emotion Illness” was a bit unusual and off, this new observe dives headfirst into that trippy, LSD-soaked aspect of QotSA’s sonic spectrum. It’s a swaying, echo-filled observe that has Homme’s crooning entrance and middle amid the booming soundscape.
In keeping with the band, In Occasions New Roman… is “uncooked, at instances brutal and never beneficial for the faint of coronary heart. And but, it’s maybe probably the most lovely and positively probably the most rewarding album of their epic discography. Homme’s most acerbic lyrics so far are buoyed by the immediately identifiable QOTSA sonic signature, expanded and embellished with new and unprecedented twists in nearly each tune. With In Occasions New Roman… we see that generally one must look beneath scars and scabs to see magnificence, and generally the scabs and scars are the sweetness.”
Along with the brand new single, the band additionally unveiled what they’re calling the “Midnight Membership,” a chance to listen to the brand new album in its entirety the night time earlier than its launch beginning at 11 p.m. on June 15. Solely choose file shops and pubs around the globe shall be internet hosting the occasion, with attendees having access to unique merchandise, entry to giveaways, and potential signed objects and ticket giveaways.
In Occasions New Roman… shall be obtainable on all platforms and as a bodily launch on June 16 through Matador Data, although you’ll be able to preorder your copy right now.
In Occasions New Roman… Tracklist:
01. Obscenery
02. Paper Machete
03. Adverse Area
04. Time & Place
05. Made to Parade
06. Carnavoyeur
07. What the Peephole Say
08. Sicily
09. Emotion Illness
10. Straight Jacket Becoming
QOTSA 2023 Stay Dates:
06/16 – Allston, MA @ Boston Calling Pageant [Tickets]
06/17 – Neuhausen Ob Eck, Germany @ Southside Pageant [Tickets]
06/18 – Landgraaf, Nextherlands @ Pinkpop [Tickets]
06/20 – Halifax, UK @ The Piece Corridor [Tickets]
06/22 – Margate, UK @ Dreamland [Tickets]
06/23 – Cardiff, UK @ Cardiff Fortress [Tickets]
06/28 – Roskilde, DK @ Roskilde Pageant [Tickets]
06/30 – Gdynia, PL @ Open’er Pageant [Tickets]
07/02 – Werchter, BE @ Rock Werchter [Tickets]
07/04 – Lyon, FR @ Les Nuits de Fourvière [Tickets]
07/05 – Albi, FR @ Base Recreation Pratgraussals [Tickets]
07/07 – Madrid, ES @ Mad Cool Pageant [Tickets]
07/08 – Oeiras, PT @ NOS Alive [Tickets]
08/12 – Forest Hills, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium ^ [Tickets]
09/09 – São Paulo, BR @ The City [Tickets]
09/24 – Louisville, KY @ Louder Than Life [Tickets]
10/08 – Sacramento, CA @ Aftershock [Tickets]
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