{"id":973810,"date":"2019-12-02T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=918932"},"modified":"2019-12-02T11:00:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T18:00:18","slug":"stone-temple-pilots-return-with-acoustic-album-unplugged-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/stone-temple-pilots-return-with-acoustic-album-unplugged-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone Temple Pilots Return With Acoustic Album, Unplugged Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two years after introducing fans to new singer Jeff Gutt on their self-titled LP, Stone Temple Pilots<\/a> will return with their new album Perdida<\/em>, which arrives on stores on February 7th. It\u2019s an acoustic record largely recorded on vintage instruments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an album we\u2019ve been wanting to make for quite some time,\u201d says STP bassist Robert DeLeo. \u201cMost of our songs start acoustically and we felt these would come across in the most genuine way if we kept them that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a concept record in the strict sense of the term, but many of the songs on Perdida<\/em> (which translates to \u201closs\u201d from Spanish) radiate with heartbreak and grief. \u201cI was looking back at difficult moments in my life,\u201d says Gutt, who wrote most of the lyrics. \u201cI was trying to be vulnerable and that\u2019s a scary thing to do, but it\u2019s also kind of comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The songs started to come together on the road during the past year, including their summer tour with Bush and the Cult. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of downtime when we\u2019re not on stage leading up to the gigs,\u201d says Gutt. \u201cRob or [STP guitarist] Dean [DeLeo] would play me something acoustically, hum the melody and we\u2019d go from there. We were just supposed to write a few songs for an EP, but it turned into a whole record. We were obviously really influenced in the moment and had a lot to say.\u201d<\/p>\n