Queens Of The Stone Age Like Clockwork

Queens Of The Stone Age Like ClockworkAll the surface evidence on Like Clockwork suggests Josh Homme is steering Queens of the Stone Age back to familiar territory. Once again, he's enlisted drummer Dave Grohl as his anchor and he's made amends with his erstwhile bassist Nick Oliveri, suggesting Homme is returning to either Rated R or Songs for the Deaf, the two turn of the millennium masterpieces that thrust QOTSA out of their stoner rock cult, but Like Clockwork isn't so simple as a

When we walked back into the control room to listen

fueled by dense interwoven riffs and colored with hints of piano and analog synthesizers that quite consciously evoke '70s future dystopia

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" NME said of the album

textures so fascinating you want to decode their sorcery

they've grown into that classic rock mantle

Sterling Morrison (vocals

To make music marked distinctly of a specific period that's somehow so compelling as to be timeless is no mean feat

As on his later releases

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are their only links to black metal

I'm essentially just trying to let the grooves breath