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Matador Records is very pleased to present "...Like Clockwork", the brand new full length release from Queens Of The Stone Age. For their first album in six years, Joshua Homme’s mighty Queens Of The Stone Age, including Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman and Dean Fertita, called back Songs For The Deaf members Dave Grohl and Joey Castillo on drums, along with Nick Oliveri and Mark Lanegan on vocals. In addition, there are performances on the album from Sir Elton John, Trent Reznor, Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys), Jake Shears (Scissor Sisters), James Lavelle (U.N.K.L.E.) and more. "...Like Clockwork" contains Homme’s most intense, personal and beautiful songwriting to date. While the thunder of Queens past is still evident (especially in premiere track "My God Is The Sun") there are a number of gorgeous ballads - meditations on time passing, the struggle to create art, and the nearness of mortality. The music lives up to the album’s lyrical and conceptual ambitions, with some of Homme’s finest guitar work to date, at times recalling past greats such as Brian May or George Harrison, at other times uniquely his own. The rhythm section starts and stops on a dime, and in some of the more complex songs, the ensemble playing is virtuosic - but never sterile.