Queens Of The Stone Age

UK first press 2013. New, unsealed.
This is QOTSA at their most vulnerable and most controlled, which somehow makes it heavier. Less swagger, more dread creeping in round the edges. Dark, slow burners sit beside massive choruses and it all feels deliberate and lived in. One of those records that grows every time you play it and suddenly you realise it is doing way more than you first thought. Genuinely brilliant and still hits hard. FFO Them Crooked Vultures, Arctic Monkeys Tranquility Base era, Nine Inch Nails, Mark Lanegan, Radiohead In Rainbows era