Just before the album drops, Stone Temple Pilots will head out for a mainly unplugged tour of North American clubs and theaters – and it’ll be a lot less of a pressure cooker for Gutt than his first-ever show with the band. The rest all all ex-girlfriends and all that.” That’s really the only time on the album. “But I’d known Chester since 2000, so there was some reminiscing about him on that song. However, Gutt maintains that there’s only one song on the disc which has even a tenuous link to those events: I Didn’t Know The Time. You wouldn’t be the only one thinking that the melancholy tone of this album echoes the band’s headspace after the death of Scott Weiland four years ago and of his replacement, Chester Bennington, two years later. Says DeLeo, “That’s about being on the road. The opening track is Fare Thee Well, which is also the first single. “I was trying to be vulnerable and that’s a scary thing to do, but it’s also kind of comfortable.” The album isn’t positioned as a concept piece, but many of the tracks exhibit a level of sadness one might expect, considering the circumstances. “I was looking back at difficult moments in my life,” says Gutt. Perdida, loosely translated, means “loss”. Most of our songs start acoustically and we felt these would come across in the most genuine way if we kept them that way.” Says bassman Robert DeLeo, “This is an album we’ve been wanting to make for quite some time. Ostensibly he’s been doing well, and he’s on board for the Perdida album, which is a so-called acoustic effort, recorded primarily on vintage gear.
Two years ago, Stone Temple Pilots introduced us to their new lead singer, The X Factor‘s Jeff Gutt, who was stepping into a very large pair of shoes.
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