A wildly underrated band - Tiny Music's the perfect 3rd-album-swerve masterpiece, and Purple's a (the?) landmark 90's hard rock album. But by the time 1999 rolled around I (/the world?) had moved on.
Justified? Mostly. This retreated from Tiny Music's stark strutting strangeness, without finding Purple's effortless purity, ending up catchyish, but forgettable. Some overabundance of effort robs it of its vitality. Exception for Down and Sour Girl, which were flashes of STP's pure riffage // offkilter lilt, respectively.
I have a whole essay brewing on this band that's leaking out here. Suffice to say, this justifies their legacy only fleetingly 3/5
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