It’s been four years since Queens of the Stone Age’s last album, …Like Clockwork, wonderfully rewrote the rules on what a QOTSA album could and should be. Lesson? There are no rules.

Now the band is back with a new record, Villains, that proves that point. Produced by Mark Ronson, full of synths, big vintage rock beats and Josh Homme’s heavy-sweet vocals, Villains is not what you expect, which is what you should expect from them by now. The album doesn’t arrive until Aug. 25, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get a taste of what it’s all about right now…