In Times New Roman …The band recorded and mixed the album at Homme’s Pink Duck Studios in Burbank, California, and added to it at Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La studio in Malibu. The band produced In Times New Roman … and their longtime collaborator, Mike Rankin, engineered it. Another longtime collaborator, Boneface, worked on the package for the double-LP gatefold, which arrives the same day as the CD and digital album release.
A trailer for the album shows a Roman-style orgy with men feeding topless women as a snake slithers across a table toward a be-laureled Caesar . Revelers snort coke, ignore plates filled with pills and Twinkies , and inject syringes into each other’s glutei maximi. Orchestral strings swoop in and around the soundtrack before breaking into a rock moment, and Caesar exclaims, “Glowy to Wome”
The band says in its album announcement that the record reflects the heartache its members have experienced in the past few years. A few months back, Hommein his custody battle with his ex-wife, Brody Dalle, who had accused him of domestic violence and abuse. In a statement, he said he’d won temporary custody of his children, pending a new hearing, and hoped that Dalle and he “can co-parent their children peacefully.