Queens Of The Stone Age : In Times New Roman

Queens of the Stone Age have announced their long-awaited 8th studio album, In Times New Roman out June 16th on Matador.

In Times New Roman… is raw, at times brutal and not recommended for the faint of heart. And yet, its perhaps the most beautiful and definitely the most rewarding album in their epic discography. Founder Joshua Homme’s most acerbic lyrics to date are buoyed by the instantly identifiable QOTSA sonic signature, expanded and embellished with new and unprecedented twists in virtually every song. With In Times New Roman we see that sometimes one needs to look beneath scars and scabs to see beauty, and sometimes the scabs and scars are the beauty.

Feeling a bit out of place, and having difficulty finding music they could relate to, the members of QOTSA did as they are wont to do: In Times New Roman is the sound of a band creating the music its own members want to hear, while giving the rest of