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QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - Era Vulgaris
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| Halfway through their fifth album, Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme nails what it is to be living in these times. Here everyone wants to party, and everyone wants to try everything. Some people might call it an age of decadence. Queens Of The Stone Age, meanwhile, have called it “Era Vulgaris” – and Josh Homme is the self-appointed spokesman for the generation....full text |
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| The Independent |
| There's an ambition about Era Vulgaris that sets Queens of the Stone Age apart from their hard rock peers. It's not just the more thoughtful content in songs like the ironic "I'm Designer", for Josh Homme is one of the more imaginative guitarist/arrangers in rock, always taking the interesting route to a melody's resolution. Check the way he opens the album with an intriguing choral discord, before a trademark QOTSA robot-rhythm riff drops in to power "Turning On the Screw" along, the blend of Homme's mild vocal and his industrial-strength guitars recalling early Cream....full text |
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| Drowned in sound |
| “I think our generation… they don't want to be dock workers or coal miners. They want to delay adolescence and prolong adolescence, prolong thought about what to do, and try to take advantage of life while it's around, take more artistic jobs, play rock music… And I think while we're all deciding, everyone samples a little bit of everything. And I'd like to play that party.”...full text |
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