Dance of the Clairvoyants

[evenslow]

need some production specific criticism from trag and mcp and spenno here.

[Homeboyd]

I liked it a lot more the second time. Damnit, I'm setting myself up to hate it by Friday.

[spike]

[Jorge]

There's no band . Its all electronics . Wtf

Huh? 'Cause there's a little bit of synth?

[stip]

I wonder if this speaks to an album where they really tried to write to the varied musical influences in the band, rather than condense them into 'pearl jam'

[Jorge]

I liked it a lot more the second time. Damnit, I'm setting myself up to hate it by Friday.

I'm confident I landed on the correct take on first listen, I'll meet you guys when you catch up with me later this month

[Rob]

I hear talking heads & modest mouse. If you wanted something new & different, I think this is it. I’m not gonna judge it now but once thru and I’m still excited.

[Strat]

"'Dance' was a perfect storm of experimentation and real collaboration...We’ve opened some new doors creatively and that’s exciting." - Jeff Ament

[ghost]

dicks and pricks and fire things?

[Jessica Fletcher]

Ed was a bit too much to take on the first chorus but by the time the second one came around I somehow got used to it. He sounds like he doesn't give a fuck in both his lyrics and his delivery which is good.
The music is fuckin' ace. I love it.
I listened to most of Stone talking on Sirius and it started out as a Stone/Matt thing I think. Stone played the bass. Then Jeff added the keys and Mike added guitar. He sounded stoked, implied that Jeff gave the thing life.

[E.H. Ruddock]

They played a two minute clip of Stone talking about how this song came together on Sirius

[rick malone]

I know the boys want to grow their dicks and pricks and fire things

[Citizen Dick]

If you've been complaining since LB for something new, and you don't love this song, I don't know what to tell you. Go clutch your copy of No Code. This is an inspired track with dense, moody production and lyrics that cut deeper than almost everything Ed's put forth in quite a while.

They're not fucking back at all; they're headed in a new direction entirely.

Thanks Harmless

[scrub12]

Terrible at linking but Jeff quote here.

https://twitter.com/pearljam/status/121 ... 82464?s=21

[knee tunes]

There's no band . Its all electronics . Wtf

Huh? 'Cause there's a little bit of synth?

The drums sound like synth

[Bammer]

My first thought is that with a totally new direction here, we are getting another decade of Pearl Jam.

Or I could be completely wrong and they drop this as their swan song, call it a wrap with a 30th anniversary show in October.

Who knows. See you on tour.

[PHATJ]

Oh my god. This is the band they should have been for the last 10 years. WTF.

Ed is so great here. Super creative and invested.

[digster]

The David Byrne aping is a lot at first - the first minute feels like Talking Heads cosplay. But I like where it gets at the end of the song.

I don't know where I'm landing on the song yet, but I think it's a good sign that they were able to write this song.

[Chris_H_2]

They played a two minute clip of Stone talking about how this song came together on Sirius

and . . .?

[Strat]

“Save your predictions and burn your presumptions” that growl. That is him growling within his aging range. and it sounds so good.