Queens of the Stone Age | Perfecth

"Perfecth" is produced by Joshua Homme and Michael Shuman and inspired by kintsugi – the Japanese art form where broken pottery is reassembled by highlighting the cracks with gold. The idea is that what has been broken can become more beautiful through repair, rather than losing its value. It is precisely in this spirit that "Perfecth" has been created. An album that the band has only now been able to make, after Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, Dean Fertita, and Jon Theodore as a collective have undergone significant development.

The album's nine songs explore different forms of love: the love for family, friends, and other people – both those who mean everything and those who merely brush against one's life. The love that destroys you and that one doesn't emerge from unscathed, as well as the love that puts you back together again.

The music was created through recordings from New Orleans to Los Angeles and is fearless and boundless, bleak and menacing, gentle and peculiar. Here, Queens of the Stone Age have collected fragments from their entire career and joined them together into a coherent whole.

"Every song sounds like it's from a different world," Homme says. "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."