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Queens Of The Stone Age will be releasing a new album, titled “In Times New Roman…,” on June 16. The effort’s first single, “Emotion Sickness,” can be found below:

“In Times New Roman…” Track Listing:

01. “Obscenery”
02. “Paper Machete”
03. “Negative Space”
04. “Time & Place”
05. “Made To Parade”
06. “Carnavoyeur”
07. “What The Peephole Say”
08. “Sicily”
09. “Emotion Sickness”
10. “Straight Jacket Fitting”

The following was said about the album in a press release:

”’In Times New Roman…‘ is raw, at times brutal and not recommended for the faint of heart. And yet, it’s perhaps the most beautiful and definitely the most rewarding album in their epic discography. Founder Joshua Homme‘s most acerbic lyrics to date are buoyed by the instantly identifiable QOTSA sonic signature, expanded and embellished with new and unprecedented twists in virtually every song. With ‘In Times New Roman…‘ we see that sometimes one needs to look beneath scars and scabs to see beauty, and sometimes the scabs and scars are the beauty.

Feeling a bit out of place, and having difficulty finding music they could relate to, the members of QOTSA did as they are wont to do: ‘In Times New Roman…’ is the sound of a band creating the music its own members want to hear, while giving the rest of us a sonic forum in which to congregate. ‘The world’s gonna end in a month or two,’ sings Homme, begging the question: What do you want to do with the time you’ve got left? Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Dean Fertita, Michael Shuman and Jon Theodore may not be able to save us, but they’re giving us a place to ride it out.”