Hundreds of epic shows, memory lapses, unexplained injuries, one yearlong detour with Iggy Pop and multiple Grammy nominations later,Queens Of The Stone Agereemerge from the desert newly scarred and somehow strangely prettier with lucky seventh album,Villains, out on Matador Records. “The title Villains isn’t a political statement,” explains frontmanJoshua Homme. “It has nothing to do with Trump or any of that shit. It’s simply 1) a word that looks fantastic and 2) a comment on the three versions of every scenario: yours, mine and what actually happened…Everyone needs someone or something to rail against their villain same as it ever was. You can’t control that. The only thing you can really control is when you let go.”

1. Feet Don’t Fail Me
2. The Way You Used To Do
3. Domesticated Animals
4. Fortress
5. Head Like A Haunted House
6. Un-Reborn Again
7. Hideaway
8. The Evil Has Landed
9. Villains of Circumstance