Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilots’s first album with new singer Jeff Gutt, who replaces the sadly departed Scott Weiland and Chester Bennington, initially shows a lot of promise: Gutt’s voice strikes the right balance of familiar yet fresh, while the Deleo brothers maintain their reputation as the most tasteful guitarbass partnership in rock.

Sadly, however, the album veers into the same stodgy mid-tempo territory that plagued the band’s last two releases, and while elegantly-arranged ballads such as Theartof Lettinggo right the course somewhat, it all adds to up to something of a solid rather than spectacular comeback.

Michael Astley-brown

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