Queens of the Stone Age
Villains
Matador (2017)
au·da·ciousôˈdāSHəs/adjectiveShowing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks.The one mission statement that Josh Homme and Queens of the Stone Age has long established was to never make the same album twice. Four years after their strongest effort yet, ...Like Clockwork - Queens have taken another left turn at Albuquerque and continued this tradition with Villains - a wholly unexpected yet warmly familiar album produced by pop-maestro Mark Ronson.The naming of Ronson as producer was a surprise, first and foremost because being one of the biggest producers in the industry doesn't often afford the anonymity of recording an album in secret, and when the announcement came, the album was already completed.The second surprise was the pairing of Ronson with the band in the first place. When you hear Queens of the Stone Age are recording a new album, I promise you, the first name that comes to mind to produce won't be the guy that's worked with Adele, Amy Winehouse and Bruno Mars.But the thing is, that way of thinking does the music a disservice. Instead of asking "why?", shouldn't we be asking "why not?" It boils down to this - upon first listen, this is very clearly a Mark Ronson … Read more
Impure Wilhelmina
Radiation
Season of Mist (2017)
Why I choose to review Radiation I can’t exactly recall (perhaps sharing members with Rorcal and Vuyvr did the trick, … Read more
White Suns
Psychic Drift
Flenser (2017)
White Suns, the New York based noise trio, has been slowly descending on the path of deconstruction. Founded in 2006, … Read more
