Villains

AlbumAug 25 / 20179 songs, 48m 3s
Alternative Rock
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6.9 / 10

With production flourishes from Mark Ronson, Josh Homme leads the band's most accessible album in decades. It’s equal parts disco inferno and devil-may-care experimentation.

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Next year will mark 20 years since the first Queens Of The Stone Age album. The success it’s garnered over that time places the band into an esteemed category, where festival headlining slots and radio spins are a given with each new album cycle. But it’s worth remembering that this wasn’t always the case. Queens was…

6 / 10

8 / 10

The desert rock titans bring in Mark Ronson to lend genuine funk to their seventh record

Kanye West’s modestly formed eighth record is a meditation on marriage, mental health, and addiction. Read the NME review of 'ye'.

8.5 / 10

4 / 5

Our take on their seventh album.

The Californian filthmongers’ most danceable offering yet – and all the better for it.

Izzi Dunn – Recycle Love, Portico Quartet – Art In The Age Of Automation, Susan Cattaneo – The Hammer & The Heart, Gogol Bordello – Seekers And Finders, and Olafur Arnalds – Eulogy For Evolution 2017

8 / 10

Ever since Queens of the Stone Age's seventh studio album, Villains, was announced via a staged polygraph test, much has been made about its...

5.0 / 10

"The Way You Used to Do" marks maybe the darkest chapter for Josh Homme's Queens of the Stone Age.

8 / 10

Four years after the storming return to form that was ‘…Like Clockwork’, Josh Homme and his motley crew are back again, with an arsenal

(Matador)

8 / 10

With ""Villains", QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE has put out its best album in years, and one of the best of its career. It is informed by a sense of groove and swing unlike any other in the band's catalogue. Producer extraordinaire Mark Ronson—who has helmed hit albums by the likes of BRUNO MARS, PAUL MCC...

The album’s pseudo-danceable moments add welcome wrinkles to a formula that’s otherwise begun to feel leaden. Read our review.

7 / 10

Photo: Andreas.

8.0 / 10

Review of Queens Of The Stone Age's new LP 'Villains': Queens of the Stone Age shift gears but don't exactly reinvent themselves on 'Villains.'

Their self-image may be cartoonishly macho, but there are sweet and supple melodies galore on this Mark Ronson-produced seventh album

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What do Queens of the Stone Age sound like when they’re produced by Mr. Uptown Funk himself?

3.5 / 5

Queens of the Stone Age - Villains review: Villains to the fans, or pushing the envelope?

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGEVillains ****Matador

The kings of stoner-rock are back and, now, they want to dance. Album review by Russ Coffey

8 / 10