Despite its villainous title, the forthcoming Queens Of The Stone Age album ‘Villains’ is an apolitical record, according to Josh Homme.
Speaking to the NME, the QOTSA frontman says the album isn’t trying to reflect the current political climate.
“Queens has always been like an ice-cream parlour or a video arcade, it’s safe from the bullshit of the day”, he told the mag. “I’m not interested in being topical in that way, yet at the same time it’s completely about now.”
“My philosophy,” Homme continued, “it seems ever more urgent, is that ‘now’ is all you’ll ever get. It’s all there ever will be. And you need to not wait and do whatever you want to do now. That is inside every moment of the record.
“It’s got an urgency without an emergency, you know what I mean? I feel the importance of it every minute. I don’t see the reason to wait, noone’s ever been able to give me one that’s worth a shit.”
Musically speaking, it would seem that QOTSA are happy to continue giving fans what they want.
“There are some slower moments but I like to dance, man, and whether it’s Eagles or Queens or Vultures there’s no reason not to conjoin rock’n’roll and dance and hallelujah and darkness and all that in one thing.
“In a world of desperately going for ‘likes’ I think ‘Villains’ is more like ‘we’ll take the dislikes, we’ll take all the outcasts’. This album is here to do bad guy stuff.”
Check out the lead single, ‘The Way You Used To Do’, below.
