Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme has been talking about the band's new album, the first since the sacking of bass player and collaborator Nick Oliveri earlier this year. On the finished album, called 'Lullabies To Paralyse' and due out in Mar, Homme told NME: "I feel like all through the years we've been learning to be Queens Of The Stone Age, and now we've finally got there. This is the distillation of everything we've been doing. I'd say that every song sounds like it's underneath a lamppost, at nighttime. I guess it's dark and romantic."
On the inclusion of Homme's girlfriend and Distillers front-woman Brody Dalle and Garbage singer Shirley Manson on the track called 'Man, You've Got Quite A Scene Going There', Homme continued: "The rule was actually to have no collaborators, so I guessed I fucked up. But we decided we needed some bitches". Well, that's nice.