…Sourced from the original analog tapes and mastered by engineer Rob LoVerde.
It would be tempting to scour No. 4, Scott Weiland’s reunion with Stone Temple Pilots, for insights into his troubles, yet the group consciously avoids this throughout the album. That’s for the best, since it’s their hardest effort since their debut, Core. “Down” and “Heaven & Hot Rods” provide a powerful, brutal opening for No. 4 — it’s as if STP decided to compete directly with the new generation of alt-metal bands who prize aggression over hooks or riffs. With these two songs, the band’s attack is as vicious as that of the new generation, but they retain their gift for gargantuan hooks. Much of the album hits pretty hard — most explicitly on “No Way Out,”…
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If great art, as many believe, is inherently polarizing, then the Stone Temple Pilots’ Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop easily ranks as the California-based band’s finest album.