Stone Temple Pilots
Tiny Music… Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop
RHINO
Deluxe 21st-anniversary edition of their boldest album.
By the time they recorded their third album, Tiny Music, with producer Brendan O’Brien in a communal house in the tiny Southern California town of Santa Ynez, Stone Temple Pilots were making startling musical progress, held back only by singer Scott Weiland’s erratic behaviour. Art School Girl aside, they banished the secondgeneration grunge that was the core of Core and Purple (and to which they would misguidedly return on No.4). Instead they crafted something braver and more special, utilising a dizzying array of styles from psychedelia to country, via blues, glam and post-punk, all topped off by Weiland’s deep, rich croon.