Queens of the Stone Age have always remained enduringly, singularly magnetic. It isn’t just their sound. It’s their spirit. They are provocative in the most essential sense: unafraid to explore the dark, the sexual, the surreal, the absurd. It’s art that snarls and seduces in equal measure, and never more so than on the band’s ninth album, Perfecth, due Oct. 30 from Matador Records.
Out today is latest single ‘Insignificant Other,’ which could be considered the album’s centerpiece. It’s the second of only two takes and captures the quintet playing loose and unguarded and making space for one another on the fly. “It’s a song about distance,” says frontman Joshua Homme. “About how someone can be your entire world only to simply vanish. And about the strange vertigo of being on the receiving end of that.”
Listen to ‘Insignificant Other’ HERE.
Queens of the Stone Age – Insignificant Other (Lyric Video)
The album announcement is accompanied by a Chapman Baehler-directed video starring Big Chongus as the embodiment of “perfecth.” Joined by the goodest boys and girls Ruby Homme, Max Homme, Pumpkin Van Leeuwen, Isabella Puppolini (Izzy) Van Leeuwen and Reesa Shuman, watch HERE to find out if Big Chongus finds the perfect home. You can also watch the now infamous Five Finger Filet teaser that announced the date the album would NOT be released HERE.
Produced by Homme and band member Michael Shuman, Perfecth will be available on CD, Standard Black Vinyl everywhere, on Clear Vinyl at Indie Retailers and as a limited Deluxe Edition – a gatefold LP package which includes handwritten lyrics, stationary, ‘stamps’ housed inside a custom envelope as well as a bespoke piece of art temporarily placed in a custom pocket — exclusively on the QOTSA and Matador webstores. Pre-order is available HERE.
Kintsugi — the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by filling its cracks with gold — holds that what has been shattered is made more beautiful, not less, by the act of repair. This is the spirit in which Perfecth was made. An album that could only have been made right now thanks to Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, Dean Fertita, and Jon Theodore taking significant evolutionary steps as a collective and arriving at hard-won clarity, its nine songs map different forms of love: of family, friends, and others both significant and insignificant. The loves that break you beyond survival and the loves that put you back together.
Birthed from sessions tracked everywhere from New Orleans to Los Angeles, the music is fearless and boundless, moody and menacing, gentle and strange. Here, Queens have moved a career’s worth of jagged pieces into alignment. “Every song sounds like it’s from a different world,” says Homme. “And that’s on purpose, because it’s 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.”
The record is called Perfecth because “perfect,” as a word, has never been honest. It doesn’t exist. So, Homme broke the word and made it “perfecth,” a more appropriate spelling for a term that never felt right to begin with. “Nothing in this world is perfect, but everything seems to be ‘perfecth’,” he explains. “And that title is funny when you’re in a group, but it ain’t so funny when you’re alone.”
While fans await the new album, they can air their gripes and grievances, moans and groans, chagrin’, carpin’, and any judgements they wish to pass via the official Queens of the Stone Age Complaint Hotline at +1 (760) 437-1966. Callers may even find a live ear at the other end of the line.
The Complaint Hotline opened following Queens of the Stone Age’s rapturously received new single ‘Easy Street (feat. Nikki Lane).‘ Debuted live last year during their lauded Catacombs tour and eagerly awaited by fans, it was the band’s first new music since 2023’s In Times New Roman…. Homme also released high-profile collaborations with Shania Twain on her new single ‘Faded Blue Jeans’ and added guest vocals to Mastodon’s latest rocker, ‘Snakes for Dinner.’
Queens of the Stone Age resume their North American stadium tour with Foo Fighters on Sept. 15 and also recently announced a fall headline run in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Singapore. 2027 headline shows will be announced in the coming weeks. Sign up at qotsa.com to be the first to receive updates.
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND 2026
With special guests Primus and Tropical Fuck Storm
Presented by Double J
Tuesday 8 December – The Drive, Adelaide
Friday 11 December – MyState Bank Arena, Hobart
Sunday 13 December – Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
Tuesday 15 December – Afterpay Arena, Sydney
Wednesday 16 December – Newcastle Entertainment Centre, Newcastle
Friday 18 December – Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane
Sunday 20 December – Spark Arena, Auckland
Live Nation Presale: Friday 17 July, 11am – Monday 20 July, 10am
Artist Presale: Thursday 16 July, 11am – Monday 20 July, 10am
GP Onsale: Monday 20 July, 11am
For complete tour and ticket information visit livenation.
Queens of the Stone Age
Perfecth
Pre-order is available HERE.
Tracklisting:
- It’s Only Love
- Insignificant Other
- Where The Goth Girls At?
- Mono
- From The Cliff
- Sunday
- Easy Street
- Phantom Limb
- Run Away From The Mob
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