Dealing With Some Stuff, Josh Homme Delivers a Good Queens of the Stone Age Album

REVIEW: Josh Homme’s personal angst is a driving force behind Queens of the Stone Age’s latest album, ‘In Times New Roman.’ But its inventive musical flourishes are what makes the LP worth checking out.

veers too far into a divorce-rock gripe-fest or a dark night of the soul confessional, chiefly because the music itself is so cathartic. After the dance-rock experimentation of, the band has returned to the clockwork riffage that has characterized the best of their work going back to their self-titled 1998 debut.

Several of the album’s tracks feature bursts of Middle Eastern-tinged strings that recall Led Zeppelin’s “Kasmir,” while the way that “Emotion Sickness” suddenly shifts from the woozy swagger of its verses to the Steely Dan-like melody and harmonies of its chorus is a thing of beauty. And then there’s the nine-minute closer “Straight Jacket Fitting,” which finds Homme doing his best Jim Morrison, ranting about the oblivious state of humanity in the face of our impending doom.

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