Queens of the Stone Age have released "Run Away from the Mob," the latest single from Perfecth, their ninth album, which arrives this Friday via Matador Records. The track follows "Where the Goth Girls At?," "Insignificant Other" and "Easy Street," and lands roughly a week after the band announced a Spring 2027 North American tour with Pixies and Wheelchair Sports Camp.
For most of its length, "Run Away from the Mob" stays quiet. Guitars and drums hold back until the 2:45 mark, when the arrangement opens up for the song's final minute. Josh Homme describes the lyric as a message passed down. "It's a letter," he says. "A last one, addressed to an oldest son, 'if you're reading this, everything went wrong, and here's what you have to do.' The end is the sound of a father standing behind his son."
That reading gives the song's structure a purpose. The hush is the letter being read; the surge is the presence of someone standing at the writer's shoulder. Homme has spent a career building tension through restraint, and here the payoff is compressed into sixty seconds. Listen for how the drums enter, whether they arrive as release or as threat.
The single continues the inward turn ROMBO traced on Perfecth, where the band's full range was put in service of distinct emotional states. It also sits alongside the recent conversation around Dave Grohl's drumming, a reminder of how much of this band's power has always rested on what happens in the low end and behind the kit.
The lyric video for "Run Away from the Mob" is out now. Perfecth arrives Friday, and the Spring 2027 tour, with presales underway and general on-sale Thursday, October 29th at 10 a.m. local time, will be the first chance to hear how the letter lands in a room full of people.
