Well, here it is. Four long years after \u2026Like Clockwork<\/i>, Josh Homme and company have returned with their most eye-opening record ever. Teaming up with Mark Ronson of all people, as producer, the band has stylistically changed their sound, and for people who love old Queens, this might be just a bit too much to take.<\/p>\n
The intro on \u201cFeet Don\u2019t Fail Me\u201d kicks into a jam with funky bass and a full-on dance atmosphere that one is definitely not used to hearing on a Queens record. The song is just too weird; I\u2019m not much of a dancin\u2019 fool so this type of \u2018rock\u2019 music doesn\u2019t really speak to me. I have a friend who was shakin\u2019 his groove thang all over the house when this came out, but for me, I had difficulty finding anything I could really get behind. The first single, \u201cThe Way You Used To Do,\u201d sounds like absolute crap, like just about everything else on the radio right now. One of the rare cuts here that has that old shot of classic Queens is \u201cDomesticated Animals,\u201d which has some really good guitar work and tones down the danceability just enough to make the song worth it.<\/p>\n
\u201cUn-Reborn Again\u201d is overly long and includes a Georgia Satellites rip-off lyric and doesn\u2019t really go anywhere, though it does have some nice guitar work. For whatever reason, Homme has come a long, long way from Kyuss and this is the result: a collection of songs that I personally was quite disappointed by. \u201cThe Evil Has Landed\u201d comes off with a bit of pop music that is another surprising departure from a band that had been very heavy in their previous material. <\/p>\n
The softer finale \u201cVillains Of Circumstance\u201d is a decent enough way to end the record; it\u2019s probably the catchiest track here, sounding a bit like Lullabies To Paralyze<\/i> era Queens. Overall, I think it would be best to chalk this up to wanting to try things a bit differently, and in my opinion, not really succeeding all that well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":33264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[6538],"rating":[5619],"class_list":["post-45074","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-queens-of-the-stone-age","rating-rating-c"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45074"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}