Emerging from a bout with depression, Josh Homme and his Queens Of The Stone Age released their latest, ...Like Clockwork, in the summer of 2013. A hungry, eager audience snapped the ten-song disc up, for good reason: it's catchy, it's moving, it's impulsive, it's sensual, and it's production is flawless. This is what you getEmerging from a bout with depression, Josh Homme and his Queens Of The Stone Age released their latest, …Like Clockwork, in the summer of 2013. A hungry, eager audience snapped the ten-song disc up, for good reason: it's catchy, it's moving, it's impulsive, it's sensual, and it's production is flawless. This is what you get when you put world-weary, well-traveled professional musicians in to a high-pressure recording situation to produce their first opus together in six years. An original album that segues easily in to their discography, …Like Clockwork is not esoteric enough to be considered a radical departure that would alienate existing fans. The disc also isn't ten tunes of average sameness. The song-to-song variety on show – bluesy rock, grandiose pop, "desert rock", even a piquant, emotional modern power ballad ("The Vampyre Of Time And Memory") – draws in the ear. There's a lot on offer in this melodic, bittersweet, vocally driven record. What you hear is what you get, and multiple 'foraging' listens for nuances and undertones only reap greater rewards. Overall, Homme and company command a Led Zeppelin-esque confident looseness and familiarity with the performance of these hook-laden, intimate tunes. Masters of texture, contrast, and ambiance, [...]
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