"For hard rock fans, Alain Johannes is the unsung and erstwhile guitarist in Queens of the Stone Age ... Johannes carries production, playing, and songwriting credits for Chris Cornell (with Shneider), Mark Lanegan, No Doubt, Jimmy Eat World, and Artic Monkeys. He was a touring member of Them Crooked Vultures, and plays in PJ Harvey's band ... a musical cartography of the masculine heart in all of its complexity, contradiction, and oft-hidden vulnerability".