There's a real sense of digging deep into the Californian desert sands to rediscover the roots of Queens Of The Stone Age on In Times New Roman; a desire to reclaim the magic that made them so special and so insanely cool when they broke through with the timeless Rated R at the turn of the century.
It's six years since their last album, Villains, which was produced by pop-funk superstar Mark Ronson. With their new album they've left the celebrity schoolyard behind - it's just the band, producing their own work from frontman Josh Homme's own studio.
