Queens of the Stone Age announce their long-awaited eighth studio album, ‘In Times New Roman’, a raw, at times brutal and yet, at it’s perhaps the most beautiful, the most rewarding album in their epic discography.
Founder Joshua Homme’s most acerbic lyrics to date are buoyed by the instantly identifiable Queens of the Stone Age sonic signature, expanded and embellished with new and unprecedented twists in virtually every song. With ‘In Times New Roman…’, we see that sometimes one needs to look beneath scars and scabs to see beauty, and sometimes the scabs and scars are the beauty.
Feeling a bit out of place, and having difficulty finding music they could relate to, the members of Queens of the Stone Age did as they are wont to do: ‘In Times New Roman…’ is the sound of a band creating the music its own members want to hear, while giving the rest of us a sonic forum in which to congregate. “The world’s gonna end in a month or two,” sings Homme, begging the question: What do you want to do to with the time you’ve got left? Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Dean Fertita, Michael Shuman and Jon Theodore may not be able to save us, but they’re giving us a place
to ride it out.
‘In Times New Roman…’ was recorded and mixed at Homme’s own Pink Duck (RIP), with additional recording at Shangri-La. The album was produced by Queens of the Stone Age and mixed by Mark Rankin. Artwork and double LP gatefold packaging designed by longtime collaborator Boneface.
Limited 2LP redvinyl pressing
Tracklisting
1. Obscenery
2. Paper Machete
3. Negative Space
4. Time & Place
5. Made To Parade
6. Carnavoyeur
7. What The Peephole Say
8. Sicily
9. Emotion Sickness
10. Straight Jacket Fitting
