Queens of the Stone Age – Villains review: Still reigning supreme

Richard Godwin finds QOTSA are in it for the long-haul
By Richard Godwin25 August 2017

If you were casting your eye over the rock ’n’ roll contenders at the dawn of the century, you wouldn’t necessarily have picked out the Californian dudes singing “Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol!” as the ones who were in it for the long haul.

But here the Queens of the Stone Age are, seven albums in, undimmed. They have endured by being true to their ever-teen ethos while remaining alert to a delicious new groove and a hidden melody.

As a rare rock band who remember the roll part of the equation, they emerge from this implausible collaboration with disco king Mark Ronson intact.

Feet Don’t Fail Me is ominous and razor-sharp, The Way You Used to Do sounds plausibly like a heavy- metal jitterbug tune, while The Evil has Landed has a Led Zep-worthy interplay of riff and drum. Tight as heck and curiously admirable.

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