8 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Diiv, Queens of the Stone Age, and More

In the world of Queens of Stone Age, nobody’s perfect, but you can be perfecth. For a band that’s been around for three decades—and spent much of their 2023 album, In Times New Roman…, discussing how twisted, messy, and dark life can get— coming to terms with the inevitability of your own blemishes seems like the logical next step. On Perfecth, you can hear the band loosening their shoulders after a long, grueling battle with acceptance. In some of the stoner-rocker’s most relaxed and spacious music in years, they muse on heartbreak, sex, and purifying catharsis.Listen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon MusicListen/Buy at BandcampBuy at Rough TradeKali Malone: Burning Song [Ideologic Organ]J.S. Bach spent the last 27 years of his life working as the music director at Thomaskirche, a Lutheran church located in Leipzig, Germany. It’s the same location Kali Malone recorded music on two late nights in August with cellist Lucy Railton and Stephen O’Malley, who joined on bowed acoustic guitar. The session has now become Burning Song, a ruminative album that reveals its quiet beauty layer by layer, like ocean water slowly breaking down rock.Listen on Apple Musi...