Vinyl Record
Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains
Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains on LP vinyl. A 2017 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 2017
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2017 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Villains is Queens Of The Stone Age in 2017, deciding that the next move after the wounded grandeur of ...Like Clockwork should be movement. Produced with Mark Ronson, the album does not turn the band into a disco act, but it does sharpen the rhythmic surfaces until the riffs seem to wear dress shoes. Feet Don't Fail Me, The Way You Used To Do, Domesticated Animals, Fortress, Head Like A Haunted House and The Evil Has Landed keep the familiar QOTSA swagger while making room for handclaps, strut, falsetto, piano colour and cleaner lines. That was a risky move because ...Like Clockwork had restored the band's critical and commercial force through shadow and catharsis. Villains answers with a crooked party record: bright lights, bad impulses, romance, decay and a sense that dancing can be another form of threat. Its 2017 context matters because many veteran rock bands were either doubling down on heaviness or sanding off edges for playlists. Queens Of The Stone Age instead made their grooves more explicit without giving up the bite underneath.
Villains matters because it shows Queens Of The Stone Age treating danceability as a rock weapon rather than a softening device. The album connects the band's old swing to sharper pop architecture, making a late-2010s statement that is polished, physical and still faintly sinister.
For collectors, Villains is the bright, strutting later-period counterweight to ...Like Clockwork. It is a useful discography landmark because it documents the band's Mark Ronson collaboration and the moment QOTSA pushed their rhythmic instincts closest to the dancefloor.
Polished QOTSA with strutting rhythms, glam-rock gestures, tight guitar snap, dance-floor pressure, clean studio shine, falsetto edges and familiar menace under the gloss.
Recommended for: Queens Of The Stone Age collectors following the band's later releases; Listeners who like hard rock with a sharper dance pulse; Fans of The Way You Used To Do, Feet Don't Fail Me and The Evil Has Landed.
When was Villains released? Villains was released in 2017 as Queens Of The Stone Age's seventh studio album. Who produced Villains? Villains was produced with Mark Ronson, whose presence helped sharpen the album's rhythmic and pop-facing surfaces. Which songs show the Villains sound best? Feet Don't Fail Me, The Way You Used To Do, Domesticated Animals, Head Like A Haunted House and The Evil Has Landed are strong entry points.