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Temple Pilots – Stone Temple Pilots
The Stone Temple Pilots are one of those bands that
I have managed to avoid like the plague for many
years now, I heard the odd song on TV whilst growing
up and really couldn’t get on with their sound
or the arrogance of front man Scott Weiland so just
imagine my disappointment when they were announced
as the main support band on the main stage on Sunday
at Download Festival and then a week or so before
the festival there brand new self titled album arrived
through my post box.
Well I put off listening to the album for a few
days but then I did the brave thing and gave it
a spin whilst in a very negative mindscape thinking
that I was going to hate the album but to my surprise
I loved the album from the start and have since
been listening to it on repeat whilst notching
up a few new favourite tracks which have now gathered
a place on my IPod play list.
‘Stone Temple Pilots’ happens to
be the band’s first album release in over
9 years and it is fantastic, I can’t comment
on if it is the band’s best album or anything
like that as I have never really listened to much
of their music as mentioned above but what I do
know is that the album is solid with each and
every song being as good as the last.
The album starts with the band’s current
single ‘Between The Lines’ and the
song is a solid sounding catchy stadium rock song
from the start, the song bounces along at a frantic
pace with Weiland’s vocals sounding so smooth
and sexual.
‘Take A Load’ starts off with some
big sounding guitar riffs and loud and clear vocals
that flow at such an beautiful pace. ‘Huckleberry
Crumble’ starts off with riffs that sound
like they were lifted from Black Sabbath ‘War
Pigs’ whilst then moving on to a big sounding
Aerosmith style stadium rock sound that is big,
catchy and pretty damn cleaver.
‘Hickory Dichotomy’ is the best song
on the album, it features some classic guitar
solos and really fast flowing catchy vocals that
are instantly going to be impaled to your brain
for future listening, ‘Cinnamon’ is
the second best song on the album and sounds so
different from anything else from the album, if
you think of one of the catchiest song’s
that you have ever heard by The Wildhearts then
you will be close to understanding what ‘Cinnamon’
is like before you even listen to it because it
does have a massive wildhearts feel about it,
the song is real clean sounding and within moments
you will be singing “come on, come on yeah”
along with Weilands newly found beautiful vocals.
The rest of the album is full of big sounding
songs such as ‘Hazy Daze’ which has
grunge rock written all over it, ‘Bagman’
which is yet another radio friendly catchy number,
‘Fast As I Can’ where the guitars
get turned up a notch or two as the band jam out
and the album closer ‘Maver’ which
is close to being a balled but slightly up tempo
to be fully classed as one.
Some positives have obviously came out of Velvet
Revolver splitting up and that is Slash is now
out doing his own solo album and solo tour which
is going down a storm and Scott Weiland is back
with the Stone Temple Pilots and they have just
released their comeback album which happens to
be one of the finest albums that I have heard
so far this year, if you were like me and could
never get into the Stone Temple Pilots now is
the time to give them a fresh chance as a lot
of enjoyment is to be had within this self titled.
5/5
Review by Trigger
Band
Members
Scott Weiland
Dean DeLeo
Robert DeLeo
Eric Kretz
Track
Listing
1. Between The Lines
2. Take A Load Off
3. Huckleberry Crumble
4. Hickory Dichotomy
5. Dare If You Dare
6. Cinnamon
7. Hazy Daze
8. Bagman
9. Peacoat
10. Fast As I Can
11. First Kiss On Mars
12. Maver
