Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age 2LP

The expanded 2011 edition of Queens of the Stone Age's legendary debut, self-titled 1998 album. Available on standard black vinyl from Matador for the first time, the reissue comes on the heels of QOTSA's explosive, critically lauded eighth studio album, In Times New Roman....

There is sex and swagger to Queens of the Stone Age, there's a swing to the rhythms, there's a darkly enveloping carnal menace buttressed by muscle and lust that keeps the album from being an insular stoner headpiece. Certainly, there's enough sinewy force to suggest the mighty brawn of Rated R and Songs for the Deaf; Homme retained enough of the desert spaciness of Kyuss to give Queens of the Stone Age an otherworldly shimmer, a hazy quality he later abandoned for aggressive precision, so this winds up as a unique record in his catalog, a place where you can hear Homme's past and future intertwining.