Era Vulgaris (Vinyl)

2007 album from the highly acclaimed Californian hard rockers who update old-school riff rock without slavish imitation or overloaded irony.

Pressed on 180G 12” Black vinyl for the first time ever, and housed in a single pocket gatefold jacket with an art insert. Includes the vinyl only bonus track “Running Joke”.

"It's hard to call Era Vulgaris stripped-down -- there's too much color in the guitar, too much willful weirdness to be that -- but this is Queens of the Stone Age at their most elemental and efficient, never spending longer than necessary at each song, yet managing to make each of these three-minute blasts of fury sound like epics. It's exhilarating, the best rock & roll record yet released in 2007 -- and the year sure needed the dose of thunder that this album provides."

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - Allmusic (4 Stars)