Stone Temple Pilots are on autopilot from the start, and a couple good songs spread out over a 41 minute runtime do little to deter from the feeling that the album is just kind of there.
But half-assed references to the drugs they used to take (used to take) and swine flu really don't cut it. I wouldn't expect Stone Temple Pilots to write an album as gloomy as Black Gives Way to Blue for obvious reasons they've never been that kind of band to begin with and they haven't gone through the same *** that Alice in Chains have. It was a dark release, certainly a far cry from the hard rocking debauchery of a song like "Between the Lines", but it was meaningful all the same. a chance to show that they were still relevant, but it also allowed them to pay homage to a fallen friend.
Black Gives Way to Blue was a great album because Alice in Chains was inspired not only did it give Jerry Cantrell and co. Stone Temple Pilots falls into the latter camp, and for many of the same reasons. The Smashing Pumpkins' Zeitgeist was a middling effort with little replay value (and the two EPs they've released since then were awful). Or a Marcy Playground, whose Leaving Wonderland… In a Fit of Rage was noticed by approximately nobody. But for every Alice in Chains there's a Hole, who released a mediocre record in Nobody's Daughter last month. Last September, Alice in Chains released Black Gives Way to Blue, and showed us that even '90s rock artists can pull off successful comeback records and sound pretty cool doing it.
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