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2017 studio album by Queens of the Rock Historic period

Villains
Villains cover artwork.png
Studio anthology past

Queens of the Stone Historic period
Released Baronial 25, 2017 (2017-08-25)
Recorded January – March 2017
Genre
  • Culling stone[1]
  • hard rock[2]
  • dance-rock[2]
  • stoner rock[iii]
  • boogie stone[2]
Length 48:00
Characterization Matador
Producer
  • Mark Ronson
  • Mark Rankin (add.)
Queens of the Rock Age chronology
...Similar Cologne
(2013) 		Villains
(2017)
Alternative encompass
Cover of limited edition release

Cover of limited edition release
Singles from Villains
  1. "The Manner Y'all Used to Do"
    Released: June 15, 2017
  2. "The Evil Has Landed"
    Released: August 10, 2017

Villains is the 7th studio album past American rock band Queens of the Rock Age, released on August 25, 2017 through Matador. The anthology was announced on June fourteen, with a teaser trailer taking the grade of a comedy skit featuring the band performing a polygraph test with Liam Lynch. The outset unmarried, "The Way Yous Used to Practise", was released the following twenty-four hours along with the announcement of a world tour.[iv] [5] Villains is the kickoff Queens of the Stone Age album to not feature whatsoever special guest musicians, the second to not feature Marker Lanegan, and the first to characteristic Jon Theodore every bit full time member of the band.[6]

The anthology received widely positive reviews and performed well commercially, topping Billboard 's Top Alternative Albums and Top Stone Albums charts. At the 2018 Grammy Awards ceremony, it was nominated for All-time Rock Anthology, losing to The War on Drugs' A Deeper Agreement.[seven]

Background and recording [edit]

Several of the songs from the anthology were previewed in some form prior to its release. The album's final runway, "Villains of Circumstance", was first premiered by Homme in 2014 at an acoustic concert for James Lavelle's Meltdown Festival, while "The Evil Has Landed" was performed by the band during their first gig of 2017 on June 22 at The Rapids Theatre in Niagara Falls, New York.[eight] "The Evil Has Landed" was released equally a single on Baronial 10, 2017. In improver to this, several snippets of songs have been featured in teaser trailers released online in promotion of the album, including a brusque clip of the anthology'due south opening track, "Feet Don't Fail Me", as well every bit an a cappella from the intro to the same song.

The album has been described equally "a little looser and more uptempo than their last release ...Like Clockwork and "more carefree".[9] Josh Homme cites his interest in dancing, working with Marker Ronson, and Ronson's collaboration with Bruno Mars "Uptown Funk" for the direction of the anthology.[9] Kory Grow of Rolling Stone notes, "While the guitars still have the limber crunch of Queens albums past, they're playing around easy-informal disco beats and chilly synths on songs similar "Feet Don't Fail Me" and "United nations-Reborn Again.""[9] The song "Un-Reborn Again" was seen equally a nod to T. Rex by critics, with the lyrics "Scaredy nose Jack/ Scaredy nose Jack/ Knowing nothing about nothing" echoing T. Rex'southward "Telegram Sam" with the lines "Golden Nose Slim/ Golden Olfactory organ Slim/ I knows where yous've been",[10] a T. Rex influence that Homme mentioned during the promotion of the album.[9]

Artwork [edit]

The cover art for Villains was designed by graphic artist Boneface, who designed the artwork for Queens of the Stone Age'due south previous album, ...Similar Clockwork. [eleven] It was the starting time fourth dimension that the band had returned to an creative person to request artwork on a subsequent album. In an interview with the Juxtapoz magazine, Boneface talked about returning to create a cover for the anthology and his working relationship with Josh Homme. In the commodity he stated that, "Returning was honestly a pretty daunting task. People seemed to similar all the artwork I did for the last album, so I felt I had something to alive up to. Also, the fact that QOTSA tend to employ a dissimilar artist for each anthology cover made it kind of special that they decided to use me again. I recall Josh likened our relationship to Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman in the initial rallying call. So later on I'd decided to plunge dorsum into the QOTSA jacuzzi, I started work the manner I usually practice, just trying to create something cool. I did a bunch of preliminary drawings before I'd heard whatever new songs or we'd even talk near the album, and i of those sketches really ended up being the footing for the album encompass."[12] Each band member was given their ain artwork, with Homme's on the front cover, and the rest of the band members on the back. An alternate vinyl embrace that was released exclusively through independent tape stores had a light blue tint over the image, gave Josh Homme a bloody olfactory organ, and the devil behind Homme giving two heart fingers.

Reception [edit]

Commercial performance [edit]

In the Billboard charting week of September 3, 2017, Villains was the No. three album on the Billboard 200 upon its beginning calendar week of release, selling 73,000 equivalent units, and 69,000 in traditional album sales. It was as well the best selling album of the calendar week, starting at No. one on the Meridian Album Sales chart.[13]

Critical reception [edit]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
AnyDecentMusic? 7.half dozen/10[15]
Metacritic 81/100[16]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [17]
The A.V. Club B[xviii]
The Guardian [19]
The Independent [20]
Mojo [21]
NME [22]
Pitchfork half dozen.ix/x[two]
Q [23]
Rolling Stone [24]
Uncut eight/ten[25]

Villains received widespread acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an boilerplate score of 81 based on 30 reviews, indicating 'universal acclaim'.[16]

Giving the album four out of v, AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine claimed that "At this stage, Queens of the Stone Age don't have many new tricks in their purse, but their consummate skill -- accentuated past the fact that this is the first QOTSA album that features simply the band lone, not even augmented by Mark Lanegan -- means they know when to ratchet up the tempo, when to slide into a mechanical grind, and when to sharpen hooks so they puncture cleanly. All that makes Villains a dark joy, a record that offers visceral pleasure in its winking menace."[17] In his review for Rolling Stone, Will Hermes wrote, "Queens of the Rock Age always sounded like the best glam-band name ever, and while Josh Homme's costless-ranging heavy rock hypnotists were never quite that, they come up every bit close as e'er on Villains."[24]

In a more reserved review for Pitchfork, contributor Zoe Military camp ended that, "Villains isn't ever so shine and several sections autumn apartment, like the staccato-spiked funk that surfaces midway through "The Evil Has Landed" or the melodically static refrains on "Fortress." Nevertheless, the stalled moments don't detract from the fun of the ride. Queens' final destination is what matters—and a beeline into the unknown sure beats another go at the merry-get-round. Villains reaffirms what makes this band so special to begin with: their willingness to accident upward the status quo as established by their riff-rock brethren, and fifty-fifty themselves."[2]

Amid the most critical reviews was an article by Volition Butler for Under the Radar. In the review, Butler claimed "It'll be of concern to Queens purists that Villains pulls from sounds that expired a decade ago and across. Dwelling on better times of a bygone era is a fundamental colonnade of escapism, only information technology's disconcerting when i of the most uncompromising, forrad-thinking bands in the rock pantheon leans and then heavily on what worked in the by that they forget that the onus is on them to introduce."[26]

Accolades [edit]

Publication Award Year Rank Ref.
Classic Rock Classic Stone Magazine's l Albums of 2017

2017

i

[27]

Mojo Mojo's Tiptop fifty Albums of 2017

2017

3

[28]

NME NME's Albums of the Year 2017

2017

35

[29]

Rolling Stone fifty Best Albums of 2017

2017

8

[thirty]

Rough Trade Albums of the Year

2017

21

[31]

Entertainment Weekly The 25 Best Albums of 2017

2017

25

[32]

Rolling Stone Readers' Poll: 10 All-time Albums of 2017

2017

9

[33]

Rails list [edit]

All music is composed by Queens of the Stone Age. All lyrics written by Josh Homme.

No. Title Length
1. "Anxiety Don't Fail Me" 5:41
2. "The Fashion You Used to Practice" 4:34
three. "Domesticated Animals" 5:20
4. "Fortress" 5:27
v. "Head Like a Haunted Business firm" iii:21
6. "United nations-Reborn Again" vi:40
vii. "Hideaway" four:18
8. "The Evil Has Landed" 6:30
ix. "Villains of Circumstance" six:09
Total length: 48:00

Personnel [edit]

Charts [edit]

Certifications and sales [edit]

References [edit]

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