JOSH HOMME Says New QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Album Is 'Dark And Romantic'
December 23, 2004Launch Radio Networks is reporting that QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE frontman Josh Homme told NME.com that the band's fourth album, "Lullabies To Paralyze", is "dark and romantic," adding, "I feel like all through the years we've been learning to be QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, and now we've finally got there. This is the distillation of everything we've been doing. I'd say that every song sounds like it's underneath a lamppost, at nighttime."
Homme recorded the album with an almost entirely new lineup, retaining only guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen and drummer Joey Castillo from the group that toured behind the last QUEENS effort, 2002's "Songs For The Deaf". Homme fired longtime bassist Nick Oliveri earlier this year.
The singer and guitarist said he's "addicted" to the new album: "I need to take it every day."
He also remarked that "Lullabies To Paralyze" is similar in some ways to his ongoing "Desert Sessions" series of albums, on which multiple artists get together to jam and record in the California desert: "The first thing we did was to go out to Joshua Tree and move our own kit. We decided it was time we lugged our own amplifiers. But the QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE has always been a more focused version of the 'Desert Sessions' anyway."
One track on the album, called "Man, You've Got Quite A Scene Going There", features guest appearances from GARBAGE singer Shirley Manson and DISTILLERS frontperson Brody Dalle, who's also Homme's girlfriend.
"Lullabies To Paralyze" arrives in stores on March 22.
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