“For Jeff to be able to sing those songs so well, that's a gift.” He adds that he’s confident Gutt will win over skeptical fans. The album’s highlights include the heavy grooves of “Middle of Nowhere” and “Meadow,” the confident strut of “Never Enough,” and the acoustic textures of “Thought She’d Be Mine.”ĭeLeo says the band will perform plenty of classic songs alongside new tracks live. It will be great so see what we do next.” I feel good with what we’ve documented sonically. We got closer as people during the writing process. "Sometimes Jeff had his own melody for a song, and he wrote a lot of the lyrics. "It was very important that he be involved right from the start," DeLeo says. Gutt contributed to all 12 songs on the new album. The band released an EP, "High Rise", in 2013 with a stopgap singer, Chester Bennington. The self-titled effort is Stone Temple Pilots’ first full-length disc in eight years and its seventh overall. The band released its first album with Gutt in March. Stone Temple Pilots also includes his brother Dean DeLeo on guitar and the drummer Eric Kretz.
Stone Temple Pilots perform on Friday at Jones Beach on Long Island and Saturday at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel. We found someone multi-faceted who can honor what has been done in the past but also move forward.” “Jeff's a great vocalist and a solid person,” he says. On “Thought She’d Be Mine,” Gutt laments a lost love accompanied by a kaleidoscope of swirling guitars that slowly dissolve into a sparkling coda."We needed a great singer who had a good head on his shoulders,” DeLeo says, indirectly referencing Weiland’s erratic behavior and drug abuse that led to several tour cancellations.
Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop (1996) and Stone Temple Pilots (2010). “Roll Me Under” glides along a nimble bass line before slamming into the chorus, where Gutt’s muscular baritone digs in.Įlsewhere on the album, the band tempers that unbridled aggression with a willingness to take the kinds of musical risks that enriched albums like Tiny Music. The first single “Meadow” and “Never Enough” channel the gritty guitars and swaggering rhythms that STP perfected on Core (1992), Purple (1994) and No. The band does just that on Stone Temple Pilots (2018). The best way for us to honor our past is to keep making new music.” Robert DeLeo says: “What impressed all of us is how he lets the song dictate his direction instead of the other way around.” Kretz adds: “The chemistry was there from the start…We ended up finishing 14 songs, which is the most that Stone Temple Pilots has ever recorded for an album.”ĭespite being one of the best-selling bands of the 1990s with platinum records and a Grammy® to its credit, Dean DeLeo says, “We are thrilled about what lies ahead. Gutt moved quickly, crafting melodies and writing lyrics for tracks the band had finished, and collaborating with them on new music.
Soon after, the newly minted quartet assembled in Los Angeles with engineer Ryan Williams at Robert DeLeo and Eric Kretz’s studios to begin writing and recording STP’s first album in eight years. Dean DeLeo says they wanted someone who had the vocal range to do the catalog justice, as well as the confidence and creativity to carve out a new path forward with the band. The band’s founding members - Dean DeLeo, Robert DeLeo and Eric Kretz - officially welcomed the Detroit native to STP last year after conducting an 18-month-long search for its third singer. It’s the group’s seventh studio album since its 1992 debut, but the first to feature new singer Jeff Gutt. Stone Temple Pilots are reborn on the band’s latest – Stone Temple Pilots (2018).
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