Era Vulgaris (Vinyl)

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

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)