ah thats such a good way to put it; i was thinking the same. It's like such a combination of their sounds. I feel like its real close to them crooked vultures conceptually too
There's a particular scene/sound in Blade Runner 2049 (which I love) that the heavy part of the song instantly reminded me of and I just can't disconnect it in my mind. Also very machine-like/robotic.
God, Straight Jacket Fitting is so painfully underrated, longest QOTSA song ever and that outro is just the icing on the cake. I could spend days listing all the amazing qualities of that song...
Josh and Dave put their two longest songs on their respective bands new albums just to make a tcv album in which every song is longer then their longest before
First I thought it sounded a lot like Era Vulgaris and the more I listened to this the more it sounded like a love child of EV and Like Clockwork. I don't think anyone could ask for a better QOTSA album. What a treat.
Months into this masterpiece and I'm convinced it's their best record (Time & Place. Sicily. Carnavoyeur. Straight Jacket Fitting. Negative Space. Made-to-Fucking-Parade!?!?!?!) With new territory, old haunts, and a whole lot of feel, clearly pain still brings the art. Sorry for your losses, Josh... but thanks for what you did with it!
Honestly Queens has not dropped an album that’s let me down. Each and every release is so consistently good. Thanks for the reaction, this year has been stacked with some great music! Would love to possibly see you react to the record by boygenius if you haven’t given it a listen yet!
This is my first time seeing a video of yours and I enjoyed every second! I am a diehard Queens fan and Carnavoyeur is the standout track to me, it’s like Bowie on steroids and is Queens at their most mature while simultaneously Josh at his most vulnerable. It seems like the pinnacle work of one of the greatest songwriters of all time. A lot of the album sounds like it could have been made in between Era Vulgaris and Like Clockwork which I mean in a good way. ITNR has incredibly solidified the iconic Queens sound.
It definitely does feel like they've taken the best aspects of Era Vulgaris, Like Clockwork, and even Lullabies in a couple songs and mixed them with some Them Crooked Vultures textures while still steering it all in a new creative direction that compliments their catalogue. While there isn't a qotsa album I dislike, there are certainly some I like more than others and this one gets an A+ from me.
It's a perfect mix of Era Vulgaris, Lullabies and Like Clockwork along with plenty of new damage. They're so good at leaving breadcrumbs so they don't lose old school fans! Fun fact, they record drums and cymbals seperately. It's very hard on their drummers. 😂 Jon is a pro! They think about every little detail.
@@KimLachanceMusicThey mic a seperate room for drums and the drummer just plays the fills with no cymbals. The cymbals aren't even present on the kit. Then they mic the room for just cymbals and they also capture the sound of the cymbals seperately. It helps with the flexibility in mixing. You can also mic the drums creatively. I also think Josh just likes the way drum parts sound doing it this way in the final product. They get more clarity and a different feel. They started doing it on Rated R I think. Dave Grohl was irritated on Songs For The Deaf, because it's really hard to do. It's antithetical to how drummers work. Drummers aren't trained to record or play this way. He had to figure out a system where he could mime hitting the cymbals even though the sound isn't captured. So that he could play the parts and maintain his timing. I believe they used electronic cymbals not connected and not mic'd. So he could hit something. But it still drove him crazy. 🤣I've never heard of another band doing this. They have a lot of quirky recording techniques. A lot of times they do record with the full band on the floor (minus drummer who is in an iso booth) together. Which is very rare these days.
This album is Josh Homme at it's purest. You can draw musical connections from this album and across many of his projects, Them Crooked Vultures, the last Desert Sessions album, Iggy Pop's Post Pop Depression, it's all over there... I love the many layers of riffs and arrangements, with enough room to breathe, and with splashes of harshing ambient noise. Definitely a masterpiece in Homme's career, almost like "Like Clockwork"
@johnburba3174 You're right, Mastodon does it too. Not a favorite of mine, but I dig Mastadon. And a few others do as well - mainly in the metal subgenres - so I misspoke. My bad. But it seems to me that QOTSA is the only one that does it in a style more reminiscent of the '60's and '70's where it was much more prevalent in the industry and done more artistically, for lack of a better phrase - Pink Floyd being the most clear, obvious example of what I'm trying to say.
Apparently not actually, both Dean and Jon (or Troy?) were surprised to find out that Josh did all the vocals on the album, including all the weird parts that don’t sound like him
@@jager9022 mild correction. josh and mikey sat with the mostly-completed album for 35 days and finished overdubs etc... 1 or 2 songs did end up featuring mikeys vox. he also does the harsh vocals on the Villains song Domesticated Animals (the very end: "tears of gold, drink then drown, dizzy dizzy dizzy, we all fall down").
Listened the entire album yesterday. Feel like listening to era vulgaris + like clockwork and maybe a little lullabies to Paralyze... Yet, feels unic too. I guess i miss too much the QOTSA, Rated R, Songs for the deaf era. Love your acoustic covers of QOTSA, please do some more? Cheers from Brazil
Hey Vitor, thanks for your comment :) Yeah sometimes it can be hard to grow along with an artist when they've had such a profound impact on us with some of their earlier work. Thanks for stopping by 🤘
I'm really happy with this. Villains didn't really do it for me, but this one instantly hit. It's very much QOTSA, but still sounds unique in their discography. It actually reminds me most of Them Crooked Vultures. On a sidenote, the new King Gizzard album is also insane, so Friday was a pretty good day.
I never quite got into King Gizzard, I found them too bizarre (if you can believe that, coming from a qotsa fan haha!) I might give it a listen to see if I've changed
The acoustic outro for Staight Jacket Fitting is the exact same melody as Obscenery the opening track. As well as the only 2 tracks to feature fade out and change-up. But love this album been binge listening to it for days now.
First time watching one of your videos. You are one of the small percentage of us that can feel music throughout our bodies and souls and I thank you for staying on point with what you hear and feel and know musically instead of pretending to be excited about obvious popular time/key/mood changes in these songs. You fully understand how a rock band works and how record production works and can meld your knowledge with your rare talent of being able to feel music and it all makes for a first-rate review. I move inside of my headphones and pause new music the same way that you do, darling. Thank you.
Been listening to this band since 2002, when SFTD was released. And TBH, this record is some of the most exciting music that I've heard from them since Lullabies. (Like Clockwork, although a fantastic album, didn't do it for me the way early 2000s Qotsa did). BTW, your reaction to the album is great.
I've been waiting for this reaction and it's been well worth the wait. So much insight but also a deep and clear enjoyment. And such a fantastic, deep and dark album. Can't stop listening to it, and I'm not skipping anything. Bravo (to you and the band).
I enjoyed watching you dance around and pick out all the intricacies in the mix. Each time I listen to this I find another thing to appreciate. God I love this band.
This is great! Thanks for sharing. The new QOTSA album is so cool, I totally agree with the comment about them not giving you any time to get bored, it is constantly changing.
Ha! Yes, during Obscenery, you notice his vocals, how they drop down. Marilyn Manson does the same thing - Two vocal tracks. One in a high register, one in a low growl. It's glorious, and you can really hear it in full effect in Made To Parade. And my absolute favorite - Sicily. What a frikkin' monster that is. It's as if a cartographer asked "Which direction can we go?" and the band answered, "Hang on a moment... Uhh, yeah, all of them."
god, this album is amazing. i cant get peephole, paper machete and secily out of my head! best album of 2023 so far and definitely one of queens best albums.
Well i binged the qotsa covers yesterday. Returning today admittedly greedy for seconds. Daffodils and Autopilot being 😍 (your voice works so damn nice in Auto's bridge.) Anyway! Now im here getting your hot takes. Very fun. Youre very likable. Like in the creator-talent way and in the "sorry to make you uncomfortable, but beauty blended with amazing taste in music is such a weakness for me. Im not above being parasocial." Sort of way. Thats my cue to go to bed i think. Lol. I have a cringe threshold i like to meet. Oh and hey- the music as well as the vid for Bleeding Red were SO well done! Youre headed for big things, love. I can tell. Keep at it
Follow up - I watched you moving to "Time & Place." You moved to the 4/4 beat. For me, the most captivating part of this song is the 4/3 guitar line (4 drumbeats, 3 guitar notes.) When my friends and I used to hang out in techno clubs, everybody else danced to the 4/4 drums. They looked at me dancing and asked "WTF are you dancing to?" The thing is, I always locked onto the other parts of the music that didn't follow the main pattern, and that was what I danced to, and nobody else understood it. When I listen to this song, my ears instantly lock on to the guitar line that doesn't follow the rest. I like the odd numbers.
Love this new album. Very Glam, A lot of Bowie influence, Tons of swagger. Super sexual. A huge return to form after the travesty of Villians. As a long time fan I'm super impressed.
The amount of things I didn’t notice listening on my own- stuff like the rapid fire bass part on Negative Space, the chorus bass line in Emotion Sickness, the way he sings falsetto double tracked- it’s really impressive how active of a listener you are, it’s really not common these days! Couple random deep dive things- not sure if you’re familiar with the Dandy Warhols, but there’s a couple parts of this album that sound EXACTLY like stuff they would do- the part in Obscenery where he says “lose your mind” and the mind was robotic sounding. Parts in Time and Place and Carnavoyeur where he does the falsetto (a-oooh-oooh) thing. Really makes me wonder if he’s been listening to them. Justin Hawkins actually noticed something else that sounded like the Dandys in one of these. It’s a super random thing, but was wondering if you knew the Dandys and heard that too. They’re in the craziest rock documentary ever that is the most must watch- you’d luvvvv it, I already know lol. It’s called “Dig!” about them and Brian Jonestown Massacre
That little beat change in Time & Place you were talking about -- it reminds me of Bowie's final album Blackstar -- I felt like he used a very similar drum beat and sound.
Just wanna say i really appreciate your short bursts of commentary about the different layers in each song. All things i geek out over in qotsa's discography
First time I was listening to straight fitting jacket I was in my car, and when the song was about to end and that guitar feedback was ringing out I thought it was truck breaks or something like that, but it freaked me the fuck out. Awesome album, glad I didn’t die at the end of listening to it.
A culmination of the past albums mashed together on a higher level on this album. The basslines in this album are amazing and so much depth in a lot of songs. Btw I believe the second vocalist on What The Peephole Say is none other than Matt Helders.
Nice review Kim! You’re representing the voices inside many of our heads as we listen to this on repeat. Love seeing people have the same feeling thing with music where it is the soundtrack to your life. Definitely a lot to appreciate with every listen. Speaking of which, when is YOUR album coming out? ;)
Thanks for your comment wolftone :) I'm going to keep releasing singles from the album this year as it's the best way to build momentum as a small artist, so yeah keep an eye out! New song every 6 to 8 weeks :)
That’s awesome! And that is very interesting, I didn’t know that’s the strategy for small artists. I’m writing some music and was curious what’s the best way to put it out there so will look into this approach. Best of luck and looking forward to hear more.
I think was Josh said, he likes guitar solos that are trying their best to be a guitar solo , something like that. So sometimes that what I picture like with Sicily.
I’m thinking on SJF it’s about his bout with depression after losing so many friends, getting cancer, and contemplating death. Very dark stuff, like an odyssey where he’s physically battling demons and coming out on top
Ah you are sooo passionate, absolutely love it! You can hear things during the first listen for which I need weeks with my headphones to get the whole thing covered 😅 for me that's one of the biggest strenghts of this band, the amount of little details in their music is awesome! I like it when music has to grow on me slowly. If it's too catchy at first listen, often it's soon out of my head. Not with qotsa, great album🤘🏼 Keep up the enthusiastic work🙏
Did you know this album is the first part of a trilogy? In Times New Roman, Villains, Like Clockwork. Listen to the albums in that order, as the band intended. Makes for a great story.
The whole section on paper machete, from so long… too late, through the “woohoohoo’s” and the solo, is one of my favorite “verses?” Or bits of song of all time. Like how people have their fav bars from j. Cole I got my fav lyrics/moments from qotsa. It has some of that passion that I’ve heard on chili pepper works like scar tissue in the vocal woo’s, the lyrics are metal af, and the electronica solo goes crazy. Immaculate 👌
I think some of the lyrics are directed to and about God. I think he started a spiritual awakening around the Like Clockwork era, he’s lyrics changed since then. Not unlike Thom Yorke, I think his main muse now is God. But I’m a Christian so I’m biased. The name Joshua means “God will save”, which I think is really present in the feel of his music. Brings me to tears. Again, I’m biased.
I love this kind of video! You noticed so much I hadn't and made me hear it from different perspectives. Subbed. I'll be checking your work later too. Also really like your style by the way!
Now all I'm waiting for is Homme as the Goblin Prince. In a sequel to Labyrinth from Jim Henson's daughter. Because that would make the generational Dark Bowie cycle in the universe complete.
sometimes an album needs a few more listenings to understand and aclimatize with the songs, I think that is the case here, and I think it's a grower, this album soon is gonna be so tasty as the last works of the band. and there are so many details to catch, your video helped me then. plus, how can anyone continue to rotulate qotsa as stoner rock, they're definetely robot rock! do you think is it the most emotionally heavy album of queens due the phase that josh went through or ...like clockwork is the heaviest? I think they kind of match in feelings and lyrics.
I think Like Clockwork was the most emotional, I Appear Missing and The Vampyre of Time an Memory are soooo deep and melancholic, oof! But this album is up there too, I just think Like Clockwork gave me a sadder vibe because of it's majority of minor key songs. And yeah, haha, Roboto Rock not stoner rock! What are people even talking about?!? lol
Exactly my opinion when I first heard it, which is awesome, because It felt like a very good and original path that they suddenly moved totally away from after that...
This has a lot of Era Vulgaris about it. Certainly a lot of swag but some classic Queens vibes at times. This is one of my favourite albums of theirs already
Album reaction playlist: tinyurl.com/3fcyfa6d
This album is a mixture of like clockwork, era vulgaris, and lullabies to paralyze, and i love that ♥️
ah thats such a good way to put it; i was thinking the same. It's like such a combination of their sounds. I feel like its real close to them crooked vultures conceptually too
This album oozes swagger and has so many interesting and amazing sounds, can't stop listening to the song Sicily, feels so cinematic 🙌
so climatic, romanesque, very cool indeed!
Agreed! It's a sexy song. The chorus is so enchanting! Thanks hundred :)
@@KimLachanceMusicwe need the full reaction!
@@StraightJacketFitting ouf that would be a heavy upload on youtube lol
There's a particular scene/sound in Blade Runner 2049 (which I love) that the heavy part of the song instantly reminded me of and I just can't disconnect it in my mind. Also very machine-like/robotic.
God, Straight Jacket Fitting is so painfully underrated, longest QOTSA song ever and that outro is just the icing on the cake. I could spend days listing all the amazing qualities of that song...
AGREED 100%.
Josh and Dave put their two longest songs on their respective bands new albums just to make a tcv album in which every song is longer then their longest before
On my first listen I said "I think this will be my favourite". 4 days later and it still is. This whole album is beautiful.
Am I wrong, or this outro is Obscenery, but with a different twist?? Anyways, awesome song 🔥
Painfully underrated after a few days of being released. How do you know?
The vocal on carnavoyer instantly make me think of david bowie. The melody and delivery is pure bowie! Love it
Dude that is so true!
Too me it sounds like The End by The Doors into 2023, very eerie and haunting.
Dark and raw sound reminds of like a clockwork. One more piece of art from queens.
I agree.... This is a solid record
Super agree with you
First I thought it sounded a lot like Era Vulgaris and the more I listened to this the more it sounded like a love child of EV and Like Clockwork. I don't think anyone could ask for a better QOTSA album. What a treat.
This album has a bit of every queens album, it’s familiar but different.I love it!.
Months into this masterpiece and I'm convinced it's their best record (Time & Place. Sicily. Carnavoyeur. Straight Jacket Fitting. Negative Space. Made-to-Fucking-Parade!?!?!?!) With new territory, old haunts, and a whole lot of feel, clearly pain still brings the art.
Sorry for your losses, Josh... but thanks for what you did with it!
Honestly Queens has not dropped an album that’s let me down. Each and every release is so consistently good. Thanks for the reaction, this year has been stacked with some great music! Would love to possibly see you react to the record by boygenius if you haven’t given it a listen yet!
she has such a lovely voice.
she should start an audio book series
“Obscenery” has a very “Time of the Season” vibe that I really love
Man you're so right, I didn't catch that at first listen but I agree with you. Thanks for your comment :)
This is my first time seeing a video of yours and I enjoyed every second! I am a diehard Queens fan and Carnavoyeur is the standout track to me, it’s like Bowie on steroids and is Queens at their most mature while simultaneously Josh at his most vulnerable. It seems like the pinnacle work of one of the greatest songwriters of all time. A lot of the album sounds like it could have been made in between Era Vulgaris and Like Clockwork which I mean in a good way. ITNR has incredibly solidified the iconic Queens sound.
Damn, Carnavoyeour is so good!
It definitely does feel like they've taken the best aspects of Era Vulgaris, Like Clockwork, and even Lullabies in a couple songs and mixed them with some Them Crooked Vultures textures while still steering it all in a new creative direction that compliments their catalogue. While there isn't a qotsa album I dislike, there are certainly some I like more than others and this one gets an A+ from me.
It's a perfect mix of Era Vulgaris, Lullabies and Like Clockwork along with plenty of new damage. They're so good at leaving breadcrumbs so they don't lose old school fans! Fun fact, they record drums and cymbals seperately. It's very hard on their drummers. 😂 Jon is a pro! They think about every little detail.
Really? Like, how? They record as a full band without mic'ing the drums and add them afterwards? Or the opposite?
@@KimLachanceMusicThey mic a seperate room for drums and the drummer just plays the fills with no cymbals. The cymbals aren't even present on the kit. Then they mic the room for just cymbals and they also capture the sound of the cymbals seperately. It helps with the flexibility in mixing. You can also mic the drums creatively. I also think Josh just likes the way drum parts sound doing it this way in the final product. They get more clarity and a different feel. They started doing it on Rated R I think. Dave Grohl was irritated on Songs For The Deaf, because it's really hard to do. It's antithetical to how drummers work. Drummers aren't trained to record or play this way. He had to figure out a system where he could mime hitting the cymbals even though the sound isn't captured. So that he could play the parts and maintain his timing. I believe they used electronic cymbals not connected and not mic'd. So he could hit something. But it still drove him crazy. 🤣I've never heard of another band doing this. They have a lot of quirky recording techniques. A lot of times they do record with the full band on the floor (minus drummer who is in an iso booth) together. Which is very rare these days.
@@pitpride1220ohhh..... I thought was something they only did on 'Songs for..' ... No?
@@pitpride1220good read. My friend who's also an uber Queens fan told me they record the cymbals separately, but I didn't know the deats
Sicily is so powerful and great
Agreed
2 drums? 🤔
This album is Josh Homme at it's purest. You can draw musical connections from this album and across many of his projects, Them Crooked Vultures, the last Desert Sessions album, Iggy Pop's Post Pop Depression, it's all over there... I love the many layers of riffs and arrangements, with enough room to breathe, and with splashes of harshing ambient noise. Definitely a masterpiece in Homme's career, almost like "Like Clockwork"
QOTSA is the only living band doing conceptual albums - not just a collection of singles like most music. I'm loving it. Best touring band, IMHO.
I highly recommend you listen to Mastodon.
@johnburba3174 You're right, Mastodon does it too. Not a favorite of mine, but I dig Mastadon. And a few others do as well - mainly in the metal subgenres - so I misspoke. My bad.
But it seems to me that QOTSA is the only one that does it in a style more reminiscent of the '60's and '70's where it was much more prevalent in the industry and done more artistically, for lack of a better phrase - Pink Floyd being the most clear, obvious example of what I'm trying to say.
Bro gizz, nobody can touch them at this point
Coheed and Cambria is mad underrated I'm gonna be straight
And tool
I think the person singing other than Josh on What The Peephole Say is Mikey Shoes! That's so cool!
Ah cool! That's awesome
Apparently not actually, both Dean and Jon (or Troy?) were surprised to find out that Josh did all the vocals on the album, including all the weird parts that don’t sound like him
@@jager9022 whaaaaaaatttt
@@jager9022 mild correction. josh and mikey sat with the mostly-completed album for 35 days and finished overdubs etc... 1 or 2 songs did end up featuring mikeys vox. he also does the harsh vocals on the Villains song Domesticated Animals (the very end: "tears of gold, drink then drown, dizzy dizzy dizzy, we all fall down").
Listened the entire album yesterday. Feel like listening to era vulgaris + like clockwork and maybe a little lullabies to Paralyze... Yet, feels unic too. I guess i miss too much the QOTSA, Rated R, Songs for the deaf era.
Love your acoustic covers of QOTSA, please do some more?
Cheers from Brazil
Hey Vitor, thanks for your comment :) Yeah sometimes it can be hard to grow along with an artist when they've had such a profound impact on us with some of their earlier work. Thanks for stopping by 🤘
Been on a loop since release. Era Vulgaris used to be my favorite. Now it's In Times New Roman 🤟
I'm really happy with this. Villains didn't really do it for me, but this one instantly hit. It's very much QOTSA, but still sounds unique in their discography. It actually reminds me most of Them Crooked Vultures.
On a sidenote, the new King Gizzard album is also insane, so Friday was a pretty good day.
I never quite got into King Gizzard, I found them too bizarre (if you can believe that, coming from a qotsa fan haha!) I might give it a listen to see if I've changed
I listened to it and reacted to the album because of you :D the videos will be up in a few hours
This album is like Era Vulgaris in that it’s a grower. Those are the types of albums that stand the test of time.
The acoustic outro for Staight Jacket Fitting is the exact same melody as Obscenery the opening track. As well as the only 2 tracks to feature fade out and change-up.
But love this album been binge listening to it for days now.
First time watching one of your videos.
You are one of the small percentage of us that can feel music throughout our bodies and souls and I thank you for staying on point with what you hear and feel and know musically instead of pretending to be excited about obvious popular time/key/mood changes in these songs.
You fully understand how a rock band works and how record production works and can meld your knowledge with your rare talent of being able to feel music and it all makes for a first-rate review.
I move inside of my headphones and pause new music the same way that you do, darling.
Thank you.
Thanks for your kind comment Boozor, happy you feel the music in this way too :)
This album is great, I listened to it twice on a road trip today. Swagger, Desert, Rock.
Been listening to this band since 2002, when SFTD was released. And TBH, this record is some of the most exciting music that I've heard from them since Lullabies. (Like Clockwork, although a fantastic album, didn't do it for me the way early 2000s Qotsa did). BTW, your reaction to the album is great.
Thanks you :) and I agree !
I was lucky enough to catch Them Crooked Vultures live, and this seems to have alot of those vibes. So good to see them in this mindspace.
I love this album on first listen but i have a feeling it’s going to grow even more on me over time
I've been waiting for this reaction and it's been well worth the wait. So much insight but also a deep and clear enjoyment.
And such a fantastic, deep and dark album. Can't stop listening to it, and I'm not skipping anything.
Bravo (to you and the band).
Thanks Jon :)
paper machete and straight jacket fitting are my favorites in the moment, the riff of sicily, so cool, omg, they don't disappoint
They do not disappoint! You said it right :) Thanks for your comments whipsaw
@@KimLachanceMusic my pleasure, I'm expecting a next reaction, when Royal Blood launch a new album
@@whipshaw 100% :)
After i listened to your review, I went ahead and through the cd back on. Great review! Great to hear a different perspective!
QOTSA rock hard. When I first heard this album it set my hair on fire. The sonic textures are thick and complex.
16:03 just love this part of Carnavoyeur when the continue the chorus guitar riff but bring the vocals back in... sounds big, just like you say!
Big time! Thanks for your comment :)
Dude i also thought the riff on Sicily sounded egyptian too
It just hits so so good. Glad to have this in my life
100% Rob :) Thanks for your comment mate
@@KimLachanceMusic now work on your album!!
‘Carnavoyeur’ is straight up Bowie, who I think he mentioned in the interview as well 🙏
Excuse me: Carnavoyeur. Just seen it live at Pinkpop-festival here. Amazing, including them playing ‘God is in the Radio’ for Lanegan. 🫶
Brilliant album, the music, the vocal delivery, the lyrics, the creativity behind it all... one of the best albums of the years by far.
Can't stop playing Sicily and Time&Place
I enjoyed watching you dance around and pick out all the intricacies in the mix. Each time I listen to this I find another thing to appreciate. God I love this band.
Thanks Adam :) I love them too, so so much
A lot of the harmonies on this album are sung by Mikey shoes he doesn’t get enough credit for the well rounded musician he is.
I read somewhere that Queens of the Stone Age is inspired a bit by elements of Krautrock which is probably why its gives an 80s electronic vibe.
This is great! Thanks for sharing. The new QOTSA album is so cool, I totally agree with the comment about them not giving you any time to get bored, it is constantly changing.
Right?! They filled up so much space with such different things while keeping it subtle. Super hard to do. Thanks for your comment Vidrio :)
Such an incredible album, it’s kind of mind blowing. Great reaction.
I love "Made To Parade" so much! Music feels like you are really on a parade. Perfect song for a walk.
Love the way you explain intricately buried layers of subtle tracks in songs. Great ear.
Thanks Swash :)
This album made me dive HARD back into the Them Crooked Vultures record. Masterpiece especially after almost 14 years now
Dude tcv is such a masterpiece 100%
Love your view and comments on the awesome tracks! Thanks for highlighting stuff I didn’t notice yet 😁
Ha! Yes, during Obscenery, you notice his vocals, how they drop down. Marilyn Manson does the same thing - Two vocal tracks. One in a high register, one in a low growl. It's glorious, and you can really hear it in full effect in Made To Parade.
And my absolute favorite - Sicily. What a frikkin' monster that is. It's as if a cartographer asked "Which direction can we go?" and the band answered, "Hang on a moment... Uhh, yeah, all of them."
Its fantastic
Edit > its screams Talking Heads and David Bowie. It's really an epic listen.
I love how Josh is singing a lot of lower notes and harmonies on this album! Love hearing his lower range more.
Loved the album, its weird, raw and honest at times while still sounding great
Nailed it! Totally agreed
god, this album is amazing. i cant get peephole, paper machete and secily out of my head! best album of 2023 so far and definitely one of queens best albums.
Well i binged the qotsa covers yesterday. Returning today admittedly greedy for seconds. Daffodils and Autopilot being 😍 (your voice works so damn nice in Auto's bridge.)
Anyway! Now im here getting your hot takes. Very fun. Youre very likable. Like in the creator-talent way and in the "sorry to make you uncomfortable, but beauty blended with amazing taste in music is such a weakness for me. Im not above being parasocial." Sort of way.
Thats my cue to go to bed i think. Lol. I have a cringe threshold i like to meet. Oh and hey- the music as well as the vid for Bleeding Red were SO well done!
Youre headed for big things, love. I can tell. Keep at it
This was Like Clockwork + Lullabies
Follow up - I watched you moving to "Time & Place." You moved to the 4/4 beat. For me, the most captivating part of this song is the 4/3 guitar line (4 drumbeats, 3 guitar notes.) When my friends and I used to hang out in techno clubs, everybody else danced to the 4/4 drums. They looked at me dancing and asked "WTF are you dancing to?" The thing is, I always locked onto the other parts of the music that didn't follow the main pattern, and that was what I danced to, and nobody else understood it. When I listen to this song, my ears instantly lock on to the guitar line that doesn't follow the rest. I like the odd numbers.
Love this new album. Very Glam, A lot of Bowie influence, Tons of swagger. Super sexual. A huge return to form after the travesty of Villians. As a long time fan I'm super impressed.
The amount of things I didn’t notice listening on my own- stuff like the rapid fire bass part on Negative Space, the chorus bass line in Emotion Sickness, the way he sings falsetto double tracked- it’s really impressive how active of a listener you are, it’s really not common these days!
Couple random deep dive things- not sure if you’re familiar with the Dandy Warhols, but there’s a couple parts of this album that sound EXACTLY like stuff they would do- the part in Obscenery where he says “lose your mind” and the mind was robotic sounding. Parts in Time and Place and Carnavoyeur where he does the falsetto (a-oooh-oooh) thing. Really makes me wonder if he’s been listening to them. Justin Hawkins actually noticed something else that sounded like the Dandys in one of these. It’s a super random thing, but was wondering if you knew the Dandys and heard that too. They’re in the craziest rock documentary ever that is the most must watch- you’d luvvvv it, I already know lol. It’s called “Dig!” about them and Brian Jonestown Massacre
love how you point out things that i never even noticed about the songs. great video, i will definitely check out your other content!
I'm starting to gather that you have a passing interest in QOTSA....
.........what made you think that?........... lol
@@KimLachanceMusic You look like a lass with exceptional taste. Fwiw, I like your voice.
Obscenery is amazing, heard it live when QOTSA played it first time ever in Paris
That little beat change in Time & Place you were talking about -- it reminds me of Bowie's final album Blackstar -- I felt like he used a very similar drum beat and sound.
“You may run the institutional learning facility, but you don’t run her and you don’t run me” I love that lyric.
Just wanna say i really appreciate your short bursts of commentary about the different layers in each song. All things i geek out over in qotsa's discography
First time I was listening to straight fitting jacket I was in my car, and when the song was about to end and that guitar feedback was ringing out I thought it was truck breaks or something like that, but it freaked me the fuck out. Awesome album, glad I didn’t die at the end of listening to it.
You're noticing so many things on your first listen I haven't noticed on my 10th! Awesome stuff
thanks Jame :)
Your take actually makes me appreciate the album more!
A culmination of the past albums mashed together on a higher level on this album. The basslines in this album are amazing and so much depth in a lot of songs. Btw I believe the second vocalist on What The Peephole Say is none other than Matt Helders.
Nice review Kim! You’re representing the voices inside many of our heads as we listen to this on repeat. Love seeing people have the same feeling thing with music where it is the soundtrack to your life. Definitely a lot to appreciate with every listen.
Speaking of which, when is YOUR album coming out? ;)
Thanks for your comment wolftone :) I'm going to keep releasing singles from the album this year as it's the best way to build momentum as a small artist, so yeah keep an eye out! New song every 6 to 8 weeks :)
That’s awesome! And that is very interesting, I didn’t know that’s the strategy for small artists. I’m writing some music and was curious what’s the best way to put it out there so will look into this approach. Best of luck and looking forward to hear more.
Perfect review to a perfect álbum (ps: the french part really got me ❤)
I think was Josh said, he likes guitar solos that are trying their best to be a guitar solo , something like that. So sometimes that what I picture like with Sicily.
These guys just don't miss. Josh Homme the 🐐 for real 🤘🏽
I’m thinking on SJF it’s about his bout with depression after losing so many friends, getting cancer, and contemplating death. Very dark stuff, like an odyssey where he’s physically battling demons and coming out on top
Bit of a mixed bag for me, Time&Place is my pick. Perfect mix of weirdness and groovage. Roll on the Dublin show in November! Great video dude 👌
I think i'm in love with you
Me too
"Made to Parade" - love the swagger
Totally!
Ah you are sooo passionate, absolutely love it! You can hear things during the first listen for which I need weeks with my headphones to get the whole thing covered 😅 for me that's one of the biggest strenghts of this band, the amount of little details in their music is awesome! I like it when music has to grow on me slowly. If it's too catchy at first listen, often it's soon out of my head. Not with qotsa, great album🤘🏼 Keep up the enthusiastic work🙏
Thank you kindly for your comment 😌
It took me quite a few listens to realize the cool buildup in Sicily has two separate drum sets going on either side of the mix
Love your attitude. A friendly greeting from Russia 🙋🏻♂
thanks for stopping by Alex :)
Did you know this album is the first part of a trilogy? In Times New Roman, Villains, Like Clockwork. Listen to the albums in that order, as the band intended. Makes for a great story.
The whole section on paper machete, from so long… too late, through the “woohoohoo’s” and the solo, is one of my favorite “verses?” Or bits of song of all time. Like how people have their fav bars from j. Cole I got my fav lyrics/moments from qotsa. It has some of that passion that I’ve heard on chili pepper works like scar tissue in the vocal woo’s, the lyrics are metal af, and the electronica solo goes crazy. Immaculate 👌
Made to parade Is the best song¡¡¡¡¡
Yeah seems to be a lot of people's fav :)
I super love this album but watching and listening to your reaction is just fuckin cool, you just might be one of the coolest people on the planet.
Ah thanks mate :p happy you like the content
Yep, I get that 80s robotics vibe too. I feel like Josh appreciates Devo deep-cuts.
Great review. You just earned a subscribed from me. Queens rock!!
Happy to have your here Jim! Thanks for stopping by
Negative Space is the best track on the album.
It was an instant standout to me
Don't discount the possibility that some of the lyrics might be about he himself. He's a pretty self aware guy.
I'm sure he is, thanks for your comment !
I think some of the lyrics are directed to and about God. I think he started a spiritual awakening around the Like Clockwork era, he’s lyrics changed since then. Not unlike Thom Yorke, I think his main muse now is God. But I’m a Christian so I’m biased. The name Joshua means “God will save”, which I think is really present in the feel of his music. Brings me to tears. Again, I’m biased.
In What The Peephole Say, I think Michael Shuman the bassist of the band
is singing in the bridge
I love this kind of video! You noticed so much I hadn't and made me hear it from different perspectives. Subbed. I'll be checking your work later too. Also really like your style by the way!
Thanks Pedro 😊 happy to have you here, thanks for your comment!
Now all I'm waiting for is Homme as the Goblin Prince. In a sequel to Labyrinth from Jim Henson's daughter. Because that would make the generational Dark Bowie cycle in the universe complete.
I love this album ❤ Great work feeling through it with us. Thanks Kim
Thanks Nat :)
sometimes an album needs a few more listenings to understand and aclimatize with the songs, I think that is the case here, and I think it's a grower, this album soon is gonna be so tasty as the last works of the band. and there are so many details to catch, your video helped me then. plus, how can anyone continue to rotulate qotsa as stoner rock, they're definetely robot rock! do you think is it the most emotionally heavy album of queens due the phase that josh went through or ...like clockwork is the heaviest? I think they kind of match in feelings and lyrics.
I think Like Clockwork was the most emotional, I Appear Missing and The Vampyre of Time an Memory are soooo deep and melancholic, oof! But this album is up there too, I just think Like Clockwork gave me a sadder vibe because of it's majority of minor key songs. And yeah, haha, Roboto Rock not stoner rock! What are people even talking about?!? lol
It gets better the more you listen 🤘
Love Paper Machete. Great video, thank you!
Thanks for stopping by mate ☺️
Great review, you are always so cute when you listen to these albums. You really love these songs and it's visible !
Queens! Dope band, dope album! On repeat in my ride 4sho. 🔥🔥
Nice review. Thanks for that ❤
Very good understanding of pure music! First video I've ever watched of you. I really respect your view! Great ears and great perception
Thanks Jesse 😁
@@KimLachanceMusic do you make music too?
@@jessehensley5666 I do! Go see my channel, I have a playlist called my original music
@@KimLachanceMusic I love your music!
@KimLachanceMusic I wanna share my music too but can't figure out how to. Lol up Handcrafted Whatcha Gonna Do! I did it all myself as well
Their best album since Era Vulgaris, and it also sound like one which is awesome
Exactly my opinion when I first heard it, which is awesome, because It felt like a very good and original path that they suddenly moved totally away from after that...
This has a lot of Era Vulgaris about it. Certainly a lot of swag but some classic Queens vibes at times. This is one of my favourite albums of theirs already
Ginger Elvis and the boys are doing it again. Awesome sauce!!!!!