Kintsugi is the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with gold, so the break becomes part of the beauty.
Gold Seams reads every Queens of the Stone Age album, from 1998 to ‘Perfecth’, as a single vessel broken into nine pieces. Each piece is a record, each fragment a song. The gold runs where an image returns across the years: eyes, water, blood, a halo, a wolf. These are the seams. There are fifteen.
Choose a seam, break the vessel, and watch the gold find its way through the songs.
Two of Josh Homme’s own lines on eyes belong in this space, in his handwriting or his own voice, once the band agrees.
The gold runs only where the word or image appears in a song's title or lyrics. No lyrics are shown here; whatBeyond the lines quoted above, what each one means is left to the listener.
‘Perfecth’ is out on 30 October. Six of its songs are still dark, and the last shard settles when they are heard.