There's something that will never fail me when it comes to buying an album and that's listening to the first single or two, and then just waiting for release day, without any sneak preview of further tracks or leaks or whatever.
Felt wonderful doing the traditional thing and going out to Bestbuy and buying a physical copy of Blaster, and cranking it out in the car on the road back home.
I must say, this is, in my humble opinion: the strongest Scott's sounded since Libertad. Nothing about the songs or his performance or melodies or production, etc. sound phoned-in.
My overall impression of this album is it's all about Scott Weiland reclaiming his vitality as an artist.
I also love that this album is perfectly sequenced, it seems as if the songs get better as the album goes along. Has a perfect front-to-back experience-feel to it, which I dig.
Did anyone else feel like the chorus to Parachute sounds like Missing Cleveland at times?
Nothing groundbreaking, but it's not supposed to be. This album does what it has to: Rock hard. At this point, an album like this is refreshing and much needed, considering the state of modern Rock n' Roll nowadays.
