Queens Of The Stone Age – R

Description

“THE CALIFORNIA DESERT: home of hot-rod proving grounds, heat hallucinations, alien abductions. It was the home, too, of Kyuss, a quartet started in the late Eighties by the teenage Josh Homme, a burnout visionary for what became a viable music subcategory by the late Nineties: stoner rock.

What stoner rock delivers, slowed down and magnified, is the riff, the persistent legacy of Mississippi blues. Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath were the first to make a monolith of it; Soundgarden were its standard-bearers during the Nineties. Now, Queens of the Stone Age — the resulting sludge from the drained oil pit of Kyuss — are settling in as kings of the rock riff at the beginning of the new century.

Rated R is the latest depository of those crunching, low-guitar-string riffs. But it’s not just that. It’s a strange, category-evading rock record, a mystery disc of gravity and low humor, of punk aggression and love-bead contentment; when you try to nail down the band’s personality, it won’t stay still.(…)” – rollingstone.com

Tracklist :

1 Feel Good Hit Of The Summer
2 The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret
3 Leg Of Lamb
4 Auto Pilot
5 Better Living Through Chemistry
6 Monsters In The Parasol
7 Quick And To The Pointless
8 In The Fade
9 Untitled
10 Tension Head
11 Lightning Song
12 I Think I Lost My Headache
(13 Ode To Clarissa – vinyl)