Gigaton: Official album thread

[Rangi Guy]

When do we think this single will drop?

In a few weeks

[Monkey_Driven]

When do we think this single will drop?

In a few weeks

Good guess.

[scrub12]

Didn’t that dude say 1/24 in the reddit post?

[liebzz]

While I love synths and listen to synths stuff all the time, Pearl Jam and synths go together like oil and water and sounds like a terrible idea. Didn't they already try that with backspacer?

I'm hoping that synth means something like You Are and Mike's quote about it being a dark album makes me think of NAIS and Binaural. Both things would be acceptable.

The Obama years were rough on Pearl Jam.

[CopperTom]

While I love synths and listen to synths stuff all the time, Pearl Jam and synths go together like oil and water and sounds like a terrible idea. Didn't they already try that with backspacer?

I'm hoping that synth means something like You Are and Mike's quote about it being a dark album makes me think of NAIS and Binaural. Both things would be acceptable.

The Obama years were rough on Pearl Jam.

Happy writing = bad PJ

[McParadigm]

I’m not hoping for anything that’s like anything they’ve done previously. I hope it sounds completely new.

[Monkey_Driven]

I’m not hoping for anything that’s like anything they’ve done previously. I hope it sounds completely new.

Same. Even if it is bad, at least they would be trying stuff.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[Sgt. Crackpot]

I’m not hoping for anything that’s like anything they’ve done previously. I hope it sounds completely new.

Same. Even it is bad, at least they would be trying stuff.

Different trash is better than the same trash, I suppose.

I'm having a hard time calling this optimism.

[Strat]

Id love for this to be on the album. Since we're all being honest here.




If re worked full band with some different instrumentation, perhaps some pedal steel, some added twang, stretched out just a bit.

[pappas]

THANK F*CK they ditched BoB. He was good in their 90s albums, but terrible after that

This Josh Evans guy looks interesting. Look him up on Spotify & he's actually made a couple jazz albums (looks like he's good with trumpet), and he's been credited with various other notable things in the past:

- He was an engineer for Chris Cornell - Chris Cornell in 2018
- He was an additional producer, mixer and engineer for On Earth as It Is: The Complete Works Mother Love Bone in 2016
- He was a guitar tech on Lightning Bolt
- He was an engineer and studio assistant for Soundgarden - King Animal
- He was an engineer for the Can't Deny Me single
- He produced, mixed and engineered the Mad Season/Seattle Symphony: Sonic Evolution album

Linkedin notes:
Audio Engineer for PJ since 2015
Keyboard tech & Guitar tech for Boom & PJ since 2008
Guitar tech for Soundgarden 2010-2017
Monitor Engineer for C Cornell for TOTD in 2016

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/josh-ev ... 31/credits
https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-evans-7577406/
https://ricecrackermusic.com/

[Birds in Hell]

- He played guitar on Lightning Bolt

I think he was the band’s guitar tech during the sessions.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[CopperTom]

Linkedin notes:
Audio Engineer for PJ since 2015

The year that digi-noise started. Nice.

[epilogue]

It's interesting that Out of Sand is not on the Twin Peaks: The Return soundtrack on Spotify.

[Birds in Hell]

It's interesting that Out of Sand is not on the Twin Peaks: The Return soundtrack on Spotify.

I’m pretty sure it’s on the CD.

I think there’s a few songs (deliberately) missing from the streaming versions of both soundtracks from the most recent series.

[dimejinky99]

I’m not hoping for anything that’s like anything they’ve done previously. I hope it sounds completely new.

Same. Even if it is bad, at least they would be trying stuff.

Ehhhh


BACKSPACER

[epilogue]

It's interesting that Out of Sand is not on the Twin Peaks: The Return soundtrack on Spotify.

I’m pretty sure it’s on the CD.

I think there’s a few songs (deliberately) missing from the streaming versions of both soundtracks from the most recent series.

Yeah it's definitely on the CD and the vinyl copy that I have.

[Birds in Hell]

I’m not hoping for anything that’s like anything they’ve done previously. I hope it sounds completely new.

Same. Even if it is bad, at least they would be trying stuff.

Ehhhh


BACKSPACER

I’m not convinced there’s any inherent value in doing new things either, it only matters whether the material is any good.

[PHATJ]

Can we talk about this quote from Mike some more?

“Making this record was a long journey,” explains Mike McCready . “It was emotionally dark and confusing at times, but also an exciting and experimental road map to musical redemption. Collaborating with my bandmates on Gigaton ultimately gave me greater love, awareness and knowledge of the need for human connection in these times."

I kind of think Mike might be sort of a simple and happy guy. He's got his sobriety and his loving family and his jillion guitars, and I think he just sort of coasts through life as a mostly happy person these days. So being pushed to make (presumably) darker music built around darker themes may have been a little out of his comfort zone...

I also have a hunch that Jeff may have thrown down the gauntlet, to the effect of "Either I get more creative control on this one so I actually feel connected to it, or I'm out." Which if true would probably have been difficult for the band to process.

Definitely plausible. At least it’s made me excited for an album that I previously had no excitement for.