Closing with the emphatic full-stop turn of phrase “We’re crashing ships in the night”, I Sat By The Ocean is near enough to top-shelf QOTSA. Providing measured doses of their best attributes – restrained one-inch punch riffs, lashings of Homme’s falsetto and some flashpoint-reaching guitar solos – the …Like Clockwork highlight rides high on a wave of pure rock swagger. Astute readers might notice that the previous sentence contains the word “wave”, making the connection with the word “ocean” in the song title. It’s shit like this that earns me the big bucks, you see.
Queens Of The Stone Age : I Sat By The Ocean
