Where his bandmates wrote intricate, Zeppelin-esque tapestries of acoustic guitars, Gutt opts to sing straight-ahead lyrics about love or lofty psychedelic bids that are so over the top they’re laughable. In fact, Gutt’s lack of personality is one of the biggest drawbacks to Perdida. The Beatles in India: 16 Things You Didn't Know When the late Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington stepped up to the mic with STP, fronting the band between Weiland and Gutt, he still sounded like Chester Bennington unfortunately Gutt doesn’t have enough of an identity beyond his work on the band’s 2018 self-titled LP to make him stand out. But it’s also those moments where he’s sounding like he’s performatively doing a Weiland impression, and it jars you out of what might otherwise be an interesting song. New frontman Jeff Gutt, a former X Factor contestant, has a good voice, and you can hear him try and curl his melody lines in a Weiland-esque way, especially the “can this be loo-oo-oove” line in lead single “Fare Thee Well,” a jaunty soft rocker about the end of a relationship. Perdida is the Spanish word for “lost,” and it’s hard not to see the title as some sad irony as the group plays a set of overly sincere acoustic tracks. What’s missing from the formula, though, is witty, cutting lyrics and well, some excitement.
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Yes, there’s acoustic guitar and string accompaniments. Although it would have seemed unimaginable in the Nineties, the decade when Stone Temple Pilots rode the grunge wave to the top of the charts with Big Riffs and Scott Weiland’s Bigger Voice, the band seems to have entered an awkward “Jethro Tull phase” on their eighth album, Perdida.