Homme and the boys dropped a single, The Way You Used to Do on Wednesday.
In a statement, Homme said the most important aspect of Villains was "redefining our sound, asking and answering the question, 'What do we sound like now?' If you can't make a great first record, you should just stop – but if you can make a great record but you keep making records and your sound doesn't evolve, you become a parody of that original sound."
Homme also noted the album's title isn't a political statement, but rather "a word that looks fantastic" and "a comment on the three versions of every scenario: Yours, mine and what actually happened. Everyone needs someone or something to rail against – their villain – same as it ever was. You can't control that. The only thing you can really control is when you let go."