
Perfecth - Black Vinyl
Queens Of The Stone Age
- LP
- Label
- Matador Records
- Expected release
- 30 October 2026

The quintet’s ninth album, Perfecth, arrives at a moment of hard-won clarity for the band. The record’s nine songs map different forms of love: of family, friends, and others both significant and insignificant. The loves that break you beyond survival and the loves that put you back together.
Perfecth was realized across a series of studios, cities, and timelines. “Insignificant Other” is the album’s centerpiece. It’s the second of only two takes and captures the quintet playing loose and unguarded, embracing accidents and making space for one another on the fly. It's ensemble-playing at a supernatural level. “We all knew that a whole record could be built around something like this,” recalls Homme. The mood is reflective and the feel is decidedly after-midnight. It's a song about distance. About how someone can be your entire world only to simply vanish. And about the strange vertigo of being on the receiving end of that for the first time.
Recording for Perfecth began in earnest after touring the Catacombs project – a cinematic, stripped-back, and cathartic reimagining of the band’s catalog filmed in an ossuary deep beneath Paris. Inspired by the album and subsequent tour’s effusive reception, Queens launched into sessions in New Orleans right before Mardi Gras. Deliberately throwing themselves into the chaos of the city, they laid down “Sunday,” a co-write with Iggy Pop originally featured on his album Post Pop Depression.
The record is called Perfecth because “perfect,” as a word, has never been honest. It doesn’t exist. So, Homme broke the word and made it “perfecth,” a more appropriate spelling for a term that never felt right to begin with.





























