Queens of the Stone Age Unveil “Perfecth” Album and Share New Single “Insignificant Other”

Aug 25, 2026

Queens of the Stone Age have rarely struggled to hold a room, and that pull comes from more than the riffs. It is the band’s whole temperament, a willingness to prod at the dark, the sexual, the surreal and the absurd without blinking. That mix of menace and charm sits at the center of the band’s ninth album, Perfecth, out October 30, 2026 via Matador Records.

The band shared what it calls the record’s centerpiece today, the new single “Insignificant Other.” Cut in just two takes, with the second one making the record, the track catches the quintet playing loose and unguarded, reacting to each other in real time.

Frontman Joshua Homme summed up the song simply:

“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.”
– Joshua Homme

The release comes with a Chapman Baehler-directed video starring a dog named Big Chongus as a stand-in for the idea of “perfecth.” Big Chongus shares the screen with fellow dogs Ruby Homme, Max Homme, Pumpkin Van Leeuwen, Isabella Puppolini (Izzy) Van Leeuwen and Reesa Shuman, as the clip follows his search for a perfect home.

Homme produced Perfecth with bandmate Michael Shuman. The album will be issued on CD and standard black vinyl everywhere, on clear vinyl through independent retailers, and as a limited deluxe gatefold LP, which comes with handwritten lyrics, stationery, faux stamps tucked inside a custom envelope, and an original piece of art in its own pocket, sold exclusively through the QOTSA and Matador webstores.

The record takes its cue from kintsugi, the Japanese practice of repairing broken pottery with gold, which treats the mended object as more beautiful for having been broken. That idea threads through Perfecth from start to finish. Built on the evolving chemistry between Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, Dean Fertita and Jon Theodore, its nine songs trace different shapes of love, for family, for friends, for people who matter and people who don’t, and the way those loves can both wreck you and put you back together.

Tracked across sessions from New Orleans to Los Angeles, the album swings from fearless to unsettling, tender to strange. Homme framed its patchwork quality as deliberate:

“Every song sounds like it’s from a different world. And that’s on purpose, because it’s trying to stitch together all these emotions revolving around love, lust, foolishness, and the sort of wisdom that comes as a gift from all that.”
– Joshua Homme

The title itself grew out of Homme’s sense that the word “perfect” never told the truth, since true perfection doesn’t exist. So he pulled the word apart and rebuilt it as “perfecth,” a spelling he felt fit the concept better.

“Nothing in this world is perfect, but everything seems to be ‘perfecth.’ And that title is funny when you’re in a group, but it ain’t so funny when you’re alone.”
– Joshua Homme

The album follows a busy stretch for the band. Queens of the Stone Age recently dropped “Easy Street,” featuring Nikki Lane, a track first aired live during last year’s Catacombs tour and their first new song since 2023’s In Times New Roman. Homme has also stayed active outside the band, contributing to Shania Twain’s single “Faded Blue Jeans” and adding guest vocals to Mastodon’s “Snakes For Dinner.”

Queens of the Stone Age pick their North American stadium run with Foo Fighters back up on September 15, 2026, and have lined up a fall headline tour across Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Singapore. 2027 headline dates are expected in the coming weeks, with fans able to sign up for updates at qotsa.com.

Perfecth is available to pre-order here.