Lullabies to ParalyzeQueens of the Stone Age · 2005

pitchfork

7.5

“On their first record since the departure of Nick Oliveri, Josh Homme's Queens of the Stone Age sound... like they always have: droning, riff-heavy rock peppered with vaguely cosmic flourishes.”

rollingstone

6.0

“As lead guitarist and singer for one of hard rock’s remaining bastions of old-fashioned chops, Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme had his work cut out for him on Lullabies to Paralyze. The previous Queens album, 2002’s Songs for the Deaf, brought Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl back to the drum pedestal he had abandoned […]”