Stone Temple Pilots

So it's been almost ten years since STP released an album and even longer since they released anything good. Since then their sinewy Scott Weiland has released shitty solo records and fronted the band Velvet Revolver which also included Duff and Slash of Guns N' Roses incase you weren't aware. Honestly I don't care what the other members of Stone Temple Pilots were doing in this time, maybe they were thinking about a new Talk Show album or maybe they were counting their millions and raising families. Whatever.

So, Stone Temple Pilots has released this new self titled album which has the quality of being very easy to listen to as it flows from song to song without any real moments that would cause me to skip a song. Gone are the days of the grunge era's version of the Doors and here is a Californian, 70s, country, rockabilly influenced sound which is not breaking any new ground but it is worth listening to.
The first single, "Between the Lines" is what you would expect from a band of 40 year olds, the music moves but doesn't have that heavy sound that the band has used, the melody is catchy as are many of Stone Temple Pilots tunes. The other real rocker is, "Fast As I Can" which can be heard on ESPN's Baseball Tonight as filler music. "Huckleberry Crumble" is a cool Aerosmith, "Rocks" era influenced song.
Their is nothing on the album in the way of a ballad like "Interstate Love Song" or "Creep" and nothing rocks as hard as "Sex Type Thing" or even, "Down". At worst the songs canseem like the little brothers of "Lady Picture Show" and "Sour Girl" at best it's a catchy mid tempo rock record.

I'm not handing out stars or amps or scale it from 1 through 10 but I will say this album is worth a listen