Perfecth

Perfecth is the band's ninth album, released worldwide by Matador Records on 30 October 2026, with Beat Records issuing the Japanese edition the same day with Japanese liner notes and translated lyrics as OLE2253CDJP. It follows In Times New Roman... from 2023. Josh Homme produced it with the band's own bassist Michael Shuman. The five-piece is Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Shuman, Dean Fertita and Jon Theodore, which the label describes as the line-up having taken significant evolutionary steps as a collective, and the sessions were tracked in a spread of places from New Orleans to Los Angeles. The record is built on a way of thinking the band trace to kintsugi, the Japanese practice of mending broken pottery by filling the seams with gold: the point is not to return a broken thing to what it was but to make the damage itself into a new kind of beauty. The title comes out of the same idea. Homme has said the word "perfect" has never sat right with him, so he broke it and spelled it "perfecth" instead. Two songs arrived ahead of the album: "Easy Street", featuring Nikki Lane, on 14 July 2026, and "Insignificant Other" on 25 August, the day the record was announced. The label calls the latter the album's centrepiece and notes that the take used is the second of only two. A video for "Where The Goth Girls At?" followed in October. Three Japanese shows come after the release, at Zepp Haneda on 25 November, Zepp Nagoya on the 26th and Zepp Namba on the 28th.