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Homme calls this a dance record – and "Battery Acid" and "Misfit Love" are both shot through with the band’s own noisy interpretation of the genre. Whatever the sources they plunder, though, here Queens Of The Stone Age perform in the same way they have throughout their career: they continue to find some clever ways to do a pretty dumb thing. It’s true, our generation may occasionally be clouded by indecision, and have its palette jaded by too much choice. Era Vulgaris, though, is a demonstration in how originality can still find a way to shine through. [Uncut]

Era Vulgaris - Queens of the Stone Age released June 12, 2000

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Queens haven’t fully abandoned brawn and ballast (combustible lead single “My God Is the Sun” is up to their usual paint-stripping standards), but those qualities are now being harnessed for greater emotional impact, particularly on the penultimate “I Appear Missing”. It's a power ballad that perfectly bridges the divide between Queens’ hard and soft extremes, pitting Homme’s crestfallen melody against a sleeping giant of a chorus that proves to be as raging as anything in the band’s repertoire; when Homme shifts to falsetto for the song’s calamitous closing minute, it’s less a show of cheekiness than vulnerability. Homme initially chose his band name to subvert the machismo inherent to hard rock and, more than any of their records before it, ...Like Clockwork feels like the ultimate realization of that mission. [Pitchfork]

...Like Clockwork - Queens of the Stone Age released June 3, 2013

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[...] the band have maintained their knack for playing different musical styles like they haven’t been invented yet, only this time their innate sense of joy has been spiked in order to face down those demons. As a QOTSA album, In Times New Roman… is dark and disorientating; for Joshua Homme, it feels like a wholly necessary outpouring of creative catharsis. [Kerrang!]

In Times New Roman... - Queens of the Stone Age released June 16, 2023

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No gimmicks, no postmodern guilt-trip bullshit, just punk rock space-cadet genius, Queens Of The Stone Age's major label debut compromises nothing but still has mass appeal. The new rock royalty have come to claim their throne. Do not miss out on this. [NME]

Rated R - Queens of the Stone Age released June 6, 2000

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Street Worms, their debut album, is a grand introduction. Viagra Boys manage to mock everyday negative qualities—boasted virility, misplaced classism, and blissful ignorance—with sincerity and ambivalence. [Pitchfork]

Street Worms - Viagra Boys released 28 September 2018