Brendan O'Brien – producer, mixing, backing vocals on "Pruno" and "I Got You", keyboards on "Church on Tuesday", percussion on "Church on Tuesday", "Sour Girl", "Sex & Violence" and "I Got You", backing vocals on "Sour Girl", piano on "Glide" and "I Got You". Eric Kretz – drums, percussion on "No Way Out" and "Atlanta". Robert DeLeo – bass, percussion on "Church on Tuesday" and "Sour Girl", guitars on "Sex & Violence" and "Glide", fuzz bass on "Glide", zither on "Glide", electric guitars on "I Got You". Dean DeLeo – guitars, acoustic guitar on "I Got You", lapsteel on "I Got You", six-string bass on "I Got You". Scott Weiland – vocals, organ on "Heaven & Hot Rods". STP's legal team then "made an offer to settle that was unacceptable to us", according to Power Lloyd's lawyer Will Shill. Diotalevi stated that no one from STP's camp would return their calls or letters, until his band mailed a cease-and-desist letter to STP's record company. Power Lloyd co-founder Gene Diotalevi explained that after their band had given a song to MTV to be used on the soundtrack of Celebrity Deathmatch, someone at MTV with an advance copy of No.4 noticed that the covers were nearly identical, and alerted the band. The Power Lloyd CD Election Day had been released in 1998, and the cover was a white five-point star on a black field under the band's name STP's No.4 also featured a white five-point star on a black field under the band's name. The cover art for No.4 generated some brief controversy because it strongly resembled the cover of the debut EP from Washington, D.C.-based band Power Lloyd. Critics noted similarities between "Atlanta" and " My Favorite Things" from the 1959 musical The Sound of Music. Tye Comer called the album "powerful and cohesive", recommending readers to listen the tracks "Heaven & Hot Rods", "Church on Tuesday", "Sour Girl", and "No Way Out". Rolling Stone critic Lorraine Ali rated it three out of five, calling the songs "strong pop-rock pieces but without the self-consciousness of previous efforts". Brunner further deemed the tracks "Sex & Violence" and "Pruno" as "hardly original" and having resemblances to David Bowie but also as "well-crafted". Brunner deemed the track "Down" as "dour", "No Way Out" as "dated", and "Atlanta" as "pretentious". 
Entertainment Weekly critic Rob Brunner graded it "C", calling the album "generic and phoned in" and mostly "unexciting and obvious".
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic cited the album as STP's "hardest effort" since Core, remarking that "it's as if STP decided to compete directly with the new generation of alt-metal bands who prize aggression over hooks or riffs." Erlewine also commented that No.4 "consolidates all strengths." Reception Professional ratings Review scoresĪllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine rated the album four out of five stars, praising the opening tracks " Down" and " Heaven & Hot Rods". 4 displays the band returning to the more hard rock-oriented sound of their first two albums. The deluxe edition includes several bonus cuts, including live versions of tracks from the new album and their classic hit “Vasoline.No. “Fast As I Can” rocks out like Bad Company and Aerosmith finding their way down the L.A. “Bagman” sounds like a power-pop band turning the amps way up. “Dare If You Dare” has power-ballad scripted onto its pounding sorrow. Whether it’s the brash attack of “Between the Lines” or the retro-boogie of “Huckleberry Crumble” and “Hazy Daze,” STP are practically a course in classic-rock history.
Singer Scott Weiland can punch forth like the rock frontman he so naturally is and the DeLeo brothers provide him with his strongest backing in years. Reunited after years of estrangement, STP sound like the perfect hard rock unit.
The group’s pop appeal while maintaining its harder edges made them that rarest of groups in the ‘90s: one that embraced the rock stardom that other bands professed to hate. Stone Temple Pilots initially angered the grunge elite for finding ways to turn the angst into surefire radio hits.
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