Stone Temple Pilots Go Glam and Get Psychedelic onTiny Music Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop: Includes Big Bang Baby and Trippin on a Hole in a Paper Heart”

Experience the Double-Platinum 1996 Album in Audiophile Sound for the First Time on Mobile Fidelitys Numbered-Edition 180g 45RPM 2LP Set

1/2 / 30 IPS analog master to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe

If great art, as many believe, is inherently polarizing, then the Stone Temple PilotsTiny Music Songs from the Vatican Gift Shopeasily ranks as the California-based bands finest album. Simultaneously celebrated and castigated upon release in spring 1996, the groups third full-length finds vocalist Scott Weiland and company expanding their grunge palette with a smart blend of glam rock, psychedelia, jangle pop, and other related styles. Having benefited from long-view reassessments that shed the biases and meanness of initial criticisms, the double-platinum effort is now largely and rightly seen as a creative masterwork. All the more reason why it deserves reference-grade production.

Sourced from the original analog tapes, pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing, and housed in a gatefold Stoughton jacket, Mobile Fidelitys numbered-edition 180g 45RPM 2LP set presentsTiny Music Songs from the Vatican Gift Shopin audiophile sound for the first time. Benefitting from exceptional groove definition, quiet surfaces, and black backgrounds, the collectible edition plays with levels of separation, imaging, and dynamics that further raise the profile on what the quartet accomplished on an album recorded at Westerly Rancha sprawling location north of Santa Barbara, CA, where a 25,000-square-foot mansion and surrounding property turned into an exploratory canvas for the bands ambitions.

Format / LP
Released / 08/29/2025
Catalogue / LMF-593
Barcode / 821797259316
Artist / Stone Temple Pilots
Label / Atlantic Records
Genre / Pop / Rock