Reviews
4 stars out of 5 -- "It's both organic and future-facing....A true metamorphosis, this album sees Queens Of The Stone Age shedding an old identity to discover new ways of playing the same old song.", 4 stars out of 5 -- "The bequiffed high priest of desert rock has always imbued his full-throttle stoner sound with a certain amount of hip-shaking sass, but on VILLAINS, he truly lets his dancing shoes take the floor.", "Mostly, they crank the tube amps to overload, letting the harmonic bombast spill over everything as they play with dynamics and hew close to being America’s only practitioners of motorik.", "All of a sudden, QOTSA have context that works, one degree from the likes of Tame Impala and Arctic Monkeys as platonic ideals for modern rock: catchy, not cloying, masculine but never toxic, humorous without irony, cool but certainly not trying too hard...", "Musically, it’s electric. With addicting grooves and disco flourishes, VILLAINS is the desert-rock outift’s finest work of the 2000s.", "Homme’s rock ’n’ roll instincts are still as keen as ever....20 years in the band still sounds amazingly energized.", 4 stars out of 5 -- "The single 'The Evil Has Landed' squalls over brutally clipped beats, suggesting latter-day Led Zep if they'd wrapped their head around New Wave."
