Queens Of The Stone Age: Perfecth (indie shop edition, transparent vinyl) [MATADOR]

Why you'll love it

This is the indie shop edition of Perfecth on transparent vinyl, the ninth album from Queens Of The Stone Age. Josh Homme and Michael Shuman produced it themselves, and four singles went out ahead of it, starting with "Easy Street."

This edition

• Indie shop edition
• Transparent vinyl

About the album

Perfecth takes its cue from kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken pottery so the cracks stay on show in gold. The songs gather up several years of the band's life, with most of the album recorded between 2024 and 2026, and the seams are part of the point.

It's a softer Queens record than you might expect, shaped by the stripped-back, theatrical arrangements the band worked up for Alive in the Catacombs and the tour that followed. "Easy Street" became a fixture of those shows after its debut on October 2, 2025, and it sits right in the middle of a nine-song album that opens with "It's Only Love" and closes with "Run Away from the Mob."

Homme summed up where the band has landed in one line, quoted below. Our first shipment barely made it to the shelf, which is about as rock and roll as our stockroom gets.

"I think the Catacombs have changed us forever, and so there is no going back, there's only forward."
Josh Homme

Tracklist

Listen

Out October 30, 2026 on Matador (cat# OLE2253LPE).