Queens of the Stone Age 'Perfecth' Tracklist: All 9 Songs on the Ninth Album

By Dani Reyes,

Perfecth album cover: five men in motion blur under red and amber light, with a red Q logo and the title in script.

Perfecth tracklist: the quick answer

The Perfecth tracklist runs nine songs, opening with "It's Only Love" and closing with "Run Away From The Mob." Queens of the Stone Age release the album Friday, October 30, on Matador Records. Josh Homme and Michael Shuman produced it. Three songs are already out: "Easy Street," "Insignificant Other" and "Where The Goth Girls At?"

Perfecth is the band's ninth album and its first since 2023's In Times New Roman... Here is the full running order, as printed by Matador and the band's own store.

Perfecth tracklist: all 9 songs

  1. It's Only Love
  2. Insignificant Other
  3. Where The Goth Girls At?
  4. Mono
  5. From the Cliff
  6. Sunday
  7. Easy Street
  8. Phantom Limb
  9. Run Away From The Mob

The same nine titles, in the same order, sit on the album's Apple Music and Spotify pre-release pages. Six of them, tracks 1, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9, stay locked until release day. The three singles are tracks 2, 3 and 7. The track times on Spotify's listing add up to about 36 minutes, and "Insignificant Other" is the longest song at 5:53.

Queens of the Stone Age: Perfecth

When does Perfecth come out? Release date and formats

Perfecth arrives October 30 via Matador Records. The ℗ line on Apple Music reads "℗ 2026 Queens of the Stone Age under exclusive license to Matador Records."

It's coming on CD, standard black vinyl and clear vinyl at independent stores, per Matador. There's also a limited Deluxe Edition gatefold LP sold only through the QOTSA and Matador webstores. The label says it includes handwritten lyrics, stationery and "stamps" in a custom envelope, plus a bespoke piece of art. Digital preorders on Bandcamp come with the three released songs right away.

Where the title comes from

Homme bent the word on purpose. Matador's announcement says "perfect" never felt honest to him, so he broke it. "Nothing in this world is perfect, but everything seems to be 'perfecth'," Homme said in the label's statement. "And that title is funny when you're in a group, but it ain't so funny when you're alone."

The same statement frames the record through kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, and names the five members who made it: Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, Dean Fertita and Jon Theodore.

The three singles: "Easy Street," "Insignificant Other," "Where The Goth Girls At?"

"Easy Street" (feat. Nikki Lane) came first, on July 14. Matador called it the band's first new song since In Times New Roman... and says the band had debuted it live on its Catacombs tour. The label hears "acoustic guitar, psychedelic synths, and a rhythm track that breathes on its own" under Lane's guest vocal. Homme told Uncut how it was cut: "We made it the way you'd make a demo. No click track, mistakes left in. It speeds up, it slows down, the claps aren't great, but they're not bad, and a bad clap adds this human thing you can't fake."

Queens of the Stone Age: Easy Street (Official Video)

"Insignificant Other" landed August 25 with the album announcement. Matador says it "could be considered the album's centerpiece" and that the released version is "the second of only two takes." Homme, per the label: "It's a song about distance. About how someone can be your entire world only to simply vanish."

Queens of the Stone Age: Insignificant Other (Lyric Video)

"Where The Goth Girls At?" followed on September 23 as the third single. Matador describes "raw, minimalist riffs with an explosive chorus, amplified by rich string and horn arrangements," drawn from Homme's youth in a Palm Desert suburb. His version: "Watching the goth girls working the counter at JCPenney and giving goth makeovers to the old ladies, that's when I knew the only place I want to be is where the goth girls at."

Queens of the Stone Age: Where The Goth Girls At? (Official Music Video)

Who produced Perfecth?

The band made it in house. The QOTSA store's LP listing reads "Produced by Joshua Homme & Michael Shuman," and Matador's announcement says the album was "Produced by Homme and band member Michael Shuman." The label's "Easy Street" release note says the same of that single: "The song was produced by Homme and Michael Shuman."

Matador adds that the sessions were tracked "everywhere from New Orleans to Los Angeles."

This is the part I care about most. A band producing itself has nobody to argue with but each other, and that can go either way. St. Vincent's first fully self-produced record came out immaculate and a little too safe, in our view. What the label has shared about Perfecth points the other way: a centerpiece kept at take two, a single cut with no click and the mistakes left in. That's closer to the live-room approach we praised on Jack White's No Name than to a polished studio build. Friday will show how the other six songs land.

Queens of the Stone Age tour dates after Perfecth

The band heads to Asia and the Pacific after release, per Matador:

Matador lists Primus and Tropical Fuck Storm on the Australia and New Zealand dates, and Foo Fighters, Interpol and The Black Angels on the Mexico City show.

Dani Reyes, Behind the Boards. Credits check: Josh Homme and Michael Shuman on 'Easy Street'.

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