So it was a really great idea to say, ‘Let’s just stay in that zone and do a whole album that way.’ It allowed us to explore more song ideas than we normally would’ve if we were doing a majority rock record,” said Kretz. “We’ve delved into a song or two on almost every album. While Perdida is the band’s first primarily acoustic album, it’s not uncharted territory for a group that’s released songs like “Pretty Penny” on 1994’s Purple or “Sour Girl” on the No. The album leans in a heavily acoustic direction and loss is a theme that emerges on the new record (though not necessarily in reference to either Weiland or Bennington, who took his own life in 2017).
