Queens of the Stone Age have announced their ninth studio album, Perfecth, due October 30 via Matador Records, alongside a new single, "Insignificant Other."
"It's a song about distance," frontman Josh Homme said of the track, a moody opener about someone who once meant everything slowly disappearing. "About how someone can be your entire world only to simply vanish."
Homme and bassist Michael Shuman self-produced Perfecth, building it around the Japanese art of kintsugi, in which broken pottery is repaired with gold rather than hidden. The album explores different forms of love, from family and friendship to lust and loss, framed by the idea that something broken can become more beautiful through the process of repair.
Even the title carries that theme. "Nothing in this world is perfect, but everything seems to be 'perfecth,'" Homme said, explaining the deliberate misspelling. "And that title is funny when you're in a group, but it ain't so funny when you're alone."
Perfecth follows 2023's In Times New Roman... and arrives as the band returns to the road, including a North American stadium run opening for Foo Fighters this September and headline dates across Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Singapore later in the year.
True to form, the album announcement came with its own gimmick: a "Complaint Hotline" fans can call to air grievances, with Homme's team promising callers might "find a live ear at the other end of the line."
The facts
- Ninth studio album Perfecth out Oct. 30 via Matador Records
- Lead single 'Insignificant Other' captured in just its second take
- Album built around the Japanese repair art of kintsugi
- Homme and Michael Shuman self-produced the record
- Band opens for Foo Fighters on stadium dates this September
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