 Newsday 's Glenn Gamboa praised the band for " not reliving the past " , but he found enough similarities to the band 's previous releases to appeal to listeners . He considered the album successful because the band had been " reflecting their time apart and their work with Velvet Revolver and Army of Anyone . " Mike Schiller , writing for PopMatters , called the album 's title an appropriate fit with the band 's apparent ease of writing with " obvious " influences . He described the title as , " more homage than it is subconscious plagiarism , " before listing Nirvana , Aerosmith , Joy Division , John Lennon , David Bowie , and even the band 's Purple as having intentionally shaped the album . Schiller decided the album was a " bonus " because , in the near @-@ decade gap since the band 's last release , " people have moved on " . He concluded that Stone Temple Pilots is " a far more fitting epilogue " than the last album , before considering it , " perhaps , [ the ] next chapter " . 
