Claude says:Stone Temple Pilots' late-period resurrection album—recorded after their 2009 reunion—catches them somewhere between their grunge-era heaviness and a more streamlined hard rock groove, with Scott Weiland sounding oddly settled into middle age. You found your way to it years into their catalog, and Sour Girl kept pulling you back, that simmering, almost blues-rock take on their old angst hitting different than the 90s thrash.