Critic Reviews
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Launch.com
Yet another bombshell of an album, blowing the lid off with majestic melodies, muscular pop-metal, and lyrics that detail singer Scott Weiland's battle with life and inner demons.
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PopMatters
Shangri La displays an earnestness and a level of comfort not heard on previous albums. A band that has intentionally held back over the past 12 years is now baring all, or at least enough to get fans pretty damn excited.
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| 80 |
Q Magazine
A couple of the songs are grunge by rote, but the art-rock sensibility gleaned from Weiland's old David Bowie albums is evident in the whispered Hell It's Late. [Oct 2001, p.130]
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Sonicnet
Shangri-La Dee Da stands with the band's best work -- a furious tug of war between strychnine-laced grunge and acid-stoked psychedelic pop. In fact, it may be well be the brooding California group's pinnacle.
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Mojo
An interestingly mixed-up album. [Sep 2001, p.114]
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CDNow
Shangri-La Dee Da sounds like two completely different bands -- DeLeo's hard rock and Weiland's soft balladry. Happily (for Atlantic Records), the album has something for both slumming Papa Roach fans and growing Jessica Simpson fans. STP has enough talent to hold both together.
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| 70 |
Rolling Stone
The span of moods and melodies on Shangri-La Dee Da is nearly as sprawling, but this time the lyrics take on a deeper tinge, and they give the album a weight and coherence lacking on previous STP releases.
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| 60 |
New Musical Express (NME)
Today, in a world rooted in an entirely different stratum of rock, they're as lively as the corpses that archaeologists hook out of peat bogs: perfectly preserved, but not great for dancing or conversation.
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| 60 |
Dot Music
The trouble is that while STP may have lived dangerously, they play safe musically. There's plenty here that's pleasant, but there's nothing startling, nothing challenging.
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| 58 |
Entertainment Weekly
The grrr goes out of Shangri after the first few tracks. [22 Jun 2001, p.90]
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| 50 |
Nude As The News
Eclectic to the point of sounding confused.
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