‘Run Away From the Mob’ is the fourth insight into Queens of the Stone Age’s forthcoming album, Perfecth. The closing track on the nine-song record, this is the culmination to a project forged from fearlessness and composed of equal parts reflection and ferocity. ‘Run Away From the Mob’ finds Homme’s divine falsetto combine with swaggering instrumentation, originally recorded in 2013 with close-collaborator Dave Grohl on drums, ‘Runaway From The Mob’ came into its full potential this year. “The reason these songs didn’t get finished until now is because I wasn’t qualified to finish them, yet,” Homme admits.
Speaking about the song, Homme said, “It’s a letter. A last one, addressed to an oldest son – ‘if you’re reading this, everything went wrong, and here’s what you have to do’. The end is the sound of a father standing behind his son.”
Queens of the Stone Age – Run Away From the Mob (Lyric Video)
‘Run Away From the Mob’ follows previously released Perfecth songs, ‘Where the Goth Girls At?’, described by CLASH as “a bruising bass-led feast of rock debauchery”, ‘Insignificant Other’, tipped as, “Queens channel the Stones as Josh Homme reaches for his most sinister falsetto croon on this deliciously callous kiss-off” by Uncut Magazine, and ‘Easy Street,’ praised as “psychedelic” by the NME and “decidedly surreal” by DIY Magazine, ahead of the album’s Oct. 30 release via Matador Records. Perfecth can be pre-ordered HERE
Produced by Homme and band member Michael Shuman, the record was made in the spirit of Kintsugi – the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by filling its cracks with gold, which holds that what has been shattered is made more beautiful, not less, by the act of repair. It’s an album that could only have been made right now thanks to Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, 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.”
Following a summer filled with incredible live shows, both across Europe with System of a Down and through North America with Foo Fighters, Queens have just announced the Perfecth World Tour 2027. Beginning May 1st at San Diego’s Viejas Arena, they will bring their unforgettable live set to venues including the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, TD Garden in Boston, and will stage outdoor shows at Red Rocks and American Family Insurance Amp in Milwaukee. See all dates below. Pixies and Wheelchair Sports Camp will support at all shows, which go on sale on Thursday, Oct. 29th at 10am local time. The dates will follow a headline run through Autumn 2026 in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Singapore. Select European headline dates for 2027 will be announced on 2nd November. Sign up at qotsa.com to be the first to receive updates.
Queens of the Stone Age on tour:
2026
11/25: Tokyo, JP / Zepp Haneda SOLD OUT
11/26: Nagoya, JP / Zepp Nagoya
11/28: Osaka, JP / Zepp Namba
12/2: Singapore / Star Theatre
12/5: Hong Kong, CN / Clockenflap #
12/8: Adelaide, AU / The Drive *
12/11: Hobart, AU / My State Bank Arena *
12/13: Melbourne, AU / Rod Laver Arena *
12/15: Sydney, AU / Afterpay Arena *
12/16: Newcastle, AU / Newcastle Entertainment Center *
12/18: Brisbane, AU / Brisbane Entertainment Center *
12/20: Auckland, NZ / Spark Arena *
Praise for Perfecth
“Perfecth is a career highlight to file alongside their classics. Yes, even Songs For The Deaf” – Record Collector ★★★★★
“Perfecth is exactly the record a questing 30-year-old rock band ought to make” – MOJO ★★★★
“heartbreak, change, and the strange beauty of letting go” – GQ
“Homme has dimmed the dials to the ’70s and snapped them clean off.” – SPIN
Queens of the Stone Age
Perfecth
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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