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STP is no stranger to taking well-known songs and completely reshaping them in acoustic fashion. The group hopes to reschedule them later this year following a summer tour with Nickelback. The eighth Stone Temple Pilots studio album Perdida was released on FebruCourtesy of Rhino EntertainmentĪn acoustic tour was set to accompany the release of Perdida but was cancelled as Gutt heals from a herniated disc. This way it was like, ‘Oh man, we could just do a whole tour this way and play songs from the past and the majority of songs off the new record and just have fun with it.’” There’s songs in our catalog that we’ve never been able to do live - because it would just be the four of us on stage and it just seems weird to bring out one or two extra people for a couple of songs. “Then we had the realization that we could do a tour and bring in some extra players, whether it be strings or horns or keyboards. So it was a really great idea to say, ‘Let’s just stay in that zone and do a whole album that way.’ It allowed us to explore more song ideas than we normally would’ve if we were doing a majority rock record,” said Kretz. “We’ve delved into a song or two on almost every album. While Perdida is the band’s first primarily acoustic album, it’s not uncharted territory for a group that’s released songs like “Pretty Penny” on 1994’s Purple or “Sour Girl” on the No. The album leans in a heavily acoustic direction and loss is a theme that emerges on the new record (though not necessarily in reference to either Weiland or Bennington, who took his own life in 2017).