{"id":657180,"date":"2026-08-26T09:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/657180\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T09:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:33:27","slug":"queens-of-the-stone-age-announce-details-of-new-album-perfecth-with-groovy-single-insignificant-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/657180\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens Of The Stone Age announce details of new album ‘Perfecth’ with groovy single ‘Insignificant Other’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queens Of The Stone Age<\/a>\u00a0have revealed details of new album \u2018Perfecth\u2019 with the sleazy groove of new single \u2018Insignificant Other\u2019.<\/p>\n

The follow-up to 2023\u2019s acclaimed \u2018In Times New Roman<\/a>\u2018 will arrive on October 30 via Matador Records, despite the band previously teasing that it might arrive in September<\/a> via a gory reveal video.<\/p>\n

Following on from already fan favourite \u2018Easy Street<\/a>\u2018, the next taster of their ninth LP comes in the form of \u2018Insignificant Other\u2019, a loose and breezy number that picks up where the laid-back groove of the classic \u2018Make It Wit Chu\u2019 left off.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a song about distance,\u201d said frontman Josh Homme. \u201cAbout how someone can be your entire world only to simply vanish. And about the strange vertigo of being on the receiving end of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The single and album announcement also come with a jokey video directed by Chapman Baehler starring the viral Big Chongus as the embodiment of what \u201cperfecth\u201d is. The dog-friendly clip also features Ruby Homme, Max Homme, Pumpkin Van Leeuwen, Isabella Puppolini (Izzy) Van Leeuwen and Reesa Shuman. Check it out below.<\/p>\n

The album title comes from the concept that \u201cperfect\u201d as a word has never been honest and doesn\u2019t exist, so Homme created a more fitting word.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing in this world is perfect, but everything seems to be \u2018perfecth\u2019,\u201d said Homme. \u201cAnd that title is funny when you\u2019re in a group, but it ain\u2019t so funny when you\u2019re alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

The album\u2019s central theme was also inspired by Kintsugi (the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by filling its cracks with gold). Homme shared that the artform makes \u201cwhat has been shattered is made more beautiful, not less, by the act of repair\u201d after the band arrived at a point of \u201chard-won clarity\u201d as a unit. The nine songs are said to be about different forms of love, dealing with \u201cfamily, friends, and others both significant and insignificant\u201d.<\/p>\n

The album notably features a re-recording of \u2018Sunday\u2019 from Homme\u2019s Iggy Pop<\/a> collaborative album \u2018Post Pop Depression\u2019<\/a>. The now classic 2016 album also featured Arctic Monkeys<\/a>\u2018 Matt Helders and QOTSA\u2019s Dean Fertita.<\/p>\n

\u2018Perfecth\u2019 was produced by Homme along with bassist Michael \u2018Mikey Shoes\u2019 Shuman and came from sessions tracked everywhere from New Orleans to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery song sounds like it\u2019s from a different world,\u201d added Homme. \u201cAnd that\u2019s on purpose, because it\u2019s trying to stitch together all these emotions revolving around love, lust, foolishness, and the sort of wisdom that comes as a gift from all that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Queens Of The Stone Age release \u2018Perfecth\u2019 on October 30 via Matador Records. Pre-order it here<\/a> and check out the artwork and tracklist below.<\/p>\n

\"QueensQueens Of The Stone Age announce new album \u2018Perfecth\u2019
\nThe \u2018Perfecth\u2019 tracklisting is:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s Only Love\u2019
\u2018Insignificant Other\u2019
\u2018Where The Goth Girls At?\u2019
\u2018Mono\u2019
\u2018From The Cliff\u2019
\u2018Sunday\u2019
\u2018Easy Street\u2019
\u2018Phantom Limb\u2019
\u2018Run Away From The Mob\u2019<\/p>\n

The album is also said to be inspired by their experience of playing a stripped-back concert at the historic Parisian Catacombs back in 2024<\/a>, which was captured for\u00a0an accompanying concert film<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0live album<\/a>. NME\u00a0gave\u00a0Alive In The Catacombs\u00a0a four-star review<\/a>, hailing it as a \u201cmoving and meditative concert doc\u201d.<\/p>\n

Queens followed up the Catacombs show with an intimate tour of the UK<\/a>, Europe and North America, where they were joined by a string section.<\/p>\n

The final UK date was held at London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall in October. There, they aired new material and were joined by Matt Berry<\/a>\u00a0for a stripped-back and emotional set \u2013\u00a0you can check out footage and photos from the show here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2024, Homme promised to \u201croll his sleeves up\u201d so that the fans wouldn\u2019t have to wait so long for Queens Of The Stone Age\u2019s next record<\/a>. There was a six-year gap between 2017\u2019s\u00a0\u2018Villains\u2019<\/a> and \u2018In Times New Roman\u2026\u2019.<\/p>\n

\"QueensQueens Of The Stone Age. CREDIT: Andreas Neumann<\/p>\n

Homme and bandmate Dean Fertita had previously talked to NME in late 2023 about the group, their personal battles and plans for the future<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we should be making something,\u201d Homme explained at the time. \u201cThe mantra of the last five years was, \u2018It won\u2019t be long now!\u2019 That needs to pertain to making things too. I certainly think we should make more, faster-er, better-er.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fresh from their UK and European stadium dates supporting System Of A Down<\/a>, QOTSA are currently in the midst of North American dates as special guests to Foo Fighters<\/a> before they make headline stops in Iceland, Japan, Australia and more. Visit here<\/a> for tickets and more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queens Of The Stone Age\u00a0have revealed details of new album \u2018Perfecth\u2019 with the sleazy groove of new single…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17,6318],"class_list":["post-657180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rock"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117161127007614268","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}