With every release, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS firmly entrench themselves in the annals of rock history. Simply put, these guys just wrote another killer album.
In an effort to write the best songs they could, the guys rented a Malibu villa, and converted it into a studio (a practice a lot of bands engage in...simply because the relaxed environment can be conducive to better writing). The result of this retreat to Malibu is some of the most diverse as well as focused songrwiting these guys have ever done.
The first single off Shangri-La Dee Da, entitled "Days of the Week" is a very poppy, catchy rocker, which shows a somewhat softer side of the new clean and sober husband and father, Scott Weiland. If you haven't seen the video yet, you should...because you'll catch Weiland looking as close to Jim Morrison as he ever has.
Produced by longtime compatriot Brendan O'Brien, Shangri-La Dee Da is ripe with STP-friendly crunch rock, like you'll hear in"Wonderful", "Coma", and "Hollywood Bitch"...and just when you thought you knew these guys, you run into a track like "A Song for Sleeping", which is a lullaby from Weiland to his son.
It's comforting that at a time when all of the career bands seem to be going the way of the dodo and one-hit-wonders are everywhere, Stone Temple Pilots are showing us all that you can still make a life out of Rock and Roll.
