Josh Homme: New QOTSA Record “Like Running In A Dream”

The frontman told BBC Radio 1’s Zane Lowe about the follow-up to 2007’s ‘Era Vulgaris’.

Since news of a new studio album from Queens of the Stone Age - with Dave Grohl in tow, no less - broke, it’s fair to suggest fans have been eager to find out anything else about the record’s potential content.

And, while chatting to BBC Radio 1’s Zane Lowe during a two-hour long special on the band’s third record ‘Songs for the Deaf’, released in 2002, broadcast last night, he revealed a little, as Antiquiet pointed out.

He explained there had ‘been a lot of struggles’ during the recording, but offered to ‘spare those gory details’.

‘I think this record is a little more lyrically vulnerable’, he added, ‘but I also think it’s musically deeper and richer and it’s a little bit stranger’.

‘This record basically sounds like you’re running in a dream the whole time’

He later commented ‘hooks are all I really care about’, before clarifying ‘for years I’ve been pulling every trick I know to wrap hooks in strangeness, and I guess the final trick is I have no trick at all’.

UK users can listen back to the whole documentary on iPlayer, this way.

As well as the return of Grohl, the record is set to feature an appearance from Trent Reznor and the return of Nick Olivieri. It is expected to be released in June 2013.