I could see the sun glaring and I was like, ‘That’s a song there.'”įans would be forgiven for thinking the album’s melancholic tone reflects the group’s state of mind after the 2015 death of Scott Weiland and his replacement, Chester Bennington, two years later. “Later I was having some wine and watching the sun come up in Los Angeles over the roof of my building. “I told him that’s a great title for a song,” says Gutt. “And it’s an observation about life.” Another song, “Sunburst,” had no title until Dean DeLeo told Gutt he wrote it on a sunburst guitar. “That’s about being on the road,” says Robert DeLeo. The album, which was recorded at drummer Eric Kretz’s Bomb Shelter Studio and produced by the band, begins with “Fare Thee Well,” which is also the first single. We were obviously really influenced in the moment and had a lot to say.” We were just supposed to write a few songs for an EP, but it turned into a whole record. “Rob or Dean would play me something acoustically, hum the melody and we’d go from there. “There’s a lot of downtime when we’re not on stage leading up to the gigs,” says Gutt. The songs started to come together on the road during the past year, including their summer tour with Bush and the Cult. “I was trying to be vulnerable and that’s a scary thing to do, but it’s also kind of comfortable.”
“I was looking back at difficult moments in my life,” says Gutt, who wrote most of the lyrics. It’s not a concept record in the strict sense of the term, but many of the songs on Perdida (which translates to “loss” from Spanish) radiate with heartbreak and grief. “Most of our songs start acoustically and we felt these would come across in the most genuine way if we kept them that way.” “This is an album we’ve been wanting to make for quite some time,” says STP bassist Robert DeLeo. It’s an acoustic record largely recorded on vintage instruments.
Two years after introducing fans to new singer Jeff Gutt on their self-titled LP, Stone Temple Pilots will return with their new album Perdida, which arrives on stores on February 7th.
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