“On 'Villains,' their seventh album, the rockers get a reboot”
“It’ll come as news to no one that Queens Of The Stone Age man mountain Joshua Homme likes a bit of a boogie. The bequiffed high priest of desert rock has always imbued his full-throttle stoner sound with a certain amount of hip-shaking sass, but on ‘Villains’, he truly lets his dancing shoes take the floor. The heavy-duty rockers’ last album, 2013’s portentous ‘Like Clockwork’ was packed full of ”
“Queens of the Stone Age embrace groove on the supremely danceable Villains”
“With production flourishes from Mark Ronson, Josh Homme leads the band's most accessible album in decades. It’s equal parts disco inferno and devil-may-care experimentation.”
“Mark Ronson's flat production doesn't do any favors for Villains, Queens of the Stone Age's most mixed bag of tracks to date.”