QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
‘THE WAY YOU USED TO DO’ VIDEO
ALL HELLZAPOPPIN’ BREAKS LOOSE IN SATANIC DANCE PRODUCTION. WRITTEN BY JOSHUA HOMME & DIRECTED BY JONAS AKERLUND
“Dancing and headbanging are truly individualistic expressions of losing oneself fully in appreciation of music – who better to combine these things into a singular vision than someone who’s directed Madonna and Lady Gaga videos – and also happens to have been a member of Bathory?” —Joshua Homme
‘The Way You Used To Do,’ the recently released first single from Queens Of The Stone Age’s ominously approaching seventh album Villains, has been realised as a fever dream Satanic dance ritual extravaganza—featuring QOTSA founder and frontman Joshua Homme lighter on his feet and darker in his soul than ever before.
Conceived by Joshua Homme, directed by Jonas Akerlund and produced by Serial Pictures, ‘The Way You Used To Do,’ somehow fit its multiple sets, wardrobe changes and intricate dance routines into one day of shooting August 8th in Los Angeles.
Considering potential reactions to the sinister shuffle of ‘The Way You Used To Do’ being translated into a panoramic soul selling dance trip, Homme says “It’s our way of paying tribute to Cab Calloway and the film Hellzapoppin’. I fully realise that may be a little more than some are open to, and that’s perfectly fine with me. There’s the door. If some of the more close-minded are gently pruned, that just leaves more room on the dance floor for the open-minded ones to get loose. That’s been the spirit of Queens Of The Stone Age and the space we’ve worked to create from day one.”
With recently released second track ‘The Evil Has Landed’ hailed by Rolling Stone as “a sprawling and diabolical new rocker” featuring Homme singing in a falsetto that sounds both sweet and sinister,” Villains was co-produced by Mark Ronson and will be released August 25th on Matador Records/Rhythmethod.
The album is available now for pre-order here.
Queens Of The Stone Age is Joshua Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Dean Fertita, Michael Shuman and Jon Theodore.
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
VILLAINS
OUT AUGUST 25 ON MATADOR RECORDS / RHYTHMETHOD
1. Feet Don’t Fail Me
2. The Way You Used To Do
3. Domesticated Animals
4. Fortress
5. Head Like A Haunted House
6. Un-Reborn Again
7. Hideaway
8. The Evil Has Landed
9. Villains Of Circumstance
Pre-order CD, 2LP, 2LP Indie Version, 2LP Deluxe Version from your favourite local retailer HERE
Praise for Villains
‘Villains is brilliant. It’s all the things that make QOTSA such a thrilling band condensed into a jolting, compact rock record’ – Q Magazine **** (four stars)
“Heroic stuff…..Homme had already done more than anyone of his generation to pump new heart into rock. Now with an unlikely ally, he’s revived the soul too.” – MOJO**** (four stars)
“A surprisingly welcome balance between Black Sabbath and disco'” – Uncut 8/10
“A reinvention that manages to sound both quintessentially QOTSA and forward-thinking… Villains cuts comfortably shoulder the best of QOTSA’s back-catalogue” – Kerrang **** (four stars)
“(QOTSA’s) most danceable offering yet – and all the better for it” – DIY ***** (five stars)
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