Queens of The Stone Age - … Like Clockwork
Matador – 2013
Rock, Robot, Desert
Rated: ****
During a certain festival there was little time to listen to the streams that came pouring in but there was one that definitely had to be checked out before enveloping oneself once more in the brilliant pool of love and music that is Roadburn. It was the Matador stream that captured my attention. And it entered Like Clockwork. And it definitely turned out to be a good album but moves ever further away from the Queens of The Stone Age we fell in love with before the turn of the century. It has moments that remind of the Era Vulgaris album and things that do that Them Crooked Vultures magic. It is a definite grower and still incorporates that ‘anti’ thing that QOTSA does. The biggest disappointments will probably be the missing of a lot of fuzz; the very limited extra input the many guests produced and the roughness. The plus side of things is that Josh and comrades decided to go for the gusto and make everything as big as possible. Fuck all expectations and fuck that punk adagio he lived by from the Kyuss days. I want to do this, so I’m gonna do this. The result is something gigantic and it might just turn out to be something legendary… After time…