Queens of the Stone Age Announce New Album Perfecth

Queens of the Stone Age have officially announced their new album, Perfecth, out October 30 on Matador Records. The title is intentional: spelled and pronounced imperfectly, a nod to the kintsugi concept the record is built around. The Japanese art of repairing broken things with gold runs through the whole project, which was assembled across multiple cities and sessions in the years following their 2023 LP, In Times New Roman.

Josh Homme co-produced Perfecth alongside bandmate Michael Shuman. Homme described the album in a press release as a deliberate patchwork: "Every song sounds like it's from a different world, and that's on purpose, because it's trying to stitch together all these emotions revolving around love, lust, foolishness, and the sort of wisdom that comes as a gift from all that." Nine tracks total, and the sequencing already reads like a record with range.

What You Need to Know About 'Insignificant Other'

Leading the album announcement is the new single "Insignificant Other," a funky, bluesy cut loaded with organ and Homme pushing into his upper register more than you might expect. The song is about emotional erasure: someone who was your whole world going quiet without explanation. Homme calls it "the strange vertigo of being on the receiving end of that." It lands somewhere between classic QOTSA desert-rock weight and something looser, more groove-forward.

This follows "Easy Street," a collab with Nikki Lane that dropped last month with a video that leaned fully into the absurd. Homme has also been making rounds lately, appearing on tracks from both Shania Twain and Mastodon in recent weeks. The rollout has been deliberate and a little chaotic on purpose, including a comedy skit that announced the wrong release date entirely.

The full tracklist: "It's Only Love," "Insignificant Other," "Where The Goth Girls At?," "Mono," "From The Cliff," "Sunday," "Easy Street," "Phantom Limb," and "Run Away From The Mob."

Where QOTSA Is Headed This Fall and Why It Matters

The band is currently on a stadium run with Foo Fighters, Mannequin Pussy, and Gouge Away. That tour hits Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on September 26 before wrapping the Foo Fighters dates. After that, QOTSA plays Aftershock Festival in Sacramento on October 4, which puts them close to home territory right before the album drops at the end of the month.

The international leg extends through December, with stops in Iceland, Japan, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand. Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne and Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney are on the list, along with Spark Arena in Auckland. This is a real global push for a band that has always had a worldwide fanbase but is clearly swinging bigger with this cycle.

For independent artists and producers watching this rollout, the kintsugi framing is worth paying attention to. QOTSA are openly presenting this album as something built from fragments across time, different sessions, different cities, different emotional registers. That is a legitimate creative framework, not just marketing copy. The willingness to let the process show, and to build a conceptual anchor around imperfection rather than hiding it, is the kind of move that lands when the music backs it up.

Perfecth drops October 30 on Matador. Pre-orders are live now. With a Las Vegas stadium date, an Aftershock Festival slot in Sacramento, and an album out before Halloween, the next few months are going to be loud.

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