12th album rumors and speculation

[Oversize]

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Just concluded a couple minutes ago. Really great info given... I guess the only thing I'd add to what others have already said in summary is that the album is "dark looking, kinda like Binaural and spacy, and then an emblem that someone described as kinda like the Wutang symbol turned on its side."

Although I put that in quotes, its just a summary. Not verbatim.

Also, half the songs are really heavy. Running is described as like Lukin only longer.

Yes, drumming described as triumphant among other superlatives.

Said that Jeff remarked how Watt's encyclopedic knowledge of their discography helped keep them focused on what sounds and musical directions they'd go in.

No mention of Josh Evans at all. Doesn't know who mixed the album.

Ok that's all I have to add.

[guitar_davey]

Also someone in the pit describes it as Soundgarden meets Tom Petty

This could go one of two ways

Tomgarden

[VinylGuy]

Also someone in the pit describes it as Soundgarden meets Tom Petty

This could go one of two ways

Tomgarden

Soundpetty

[VinylGuy]

Kyle Petty

[scrub12]

So a single release soon, right? DOTC came out a few days before the listening party last time. Album came out about two months later.

[spike]

Wreckage is a more promising song title than Wrecker.

[Sgt. Crackpot]

They seem to have put this album together far quicker than the last one. Now that everything is moving, I hope this momentum continues and they either have a similar timeline to last time from the listening party, or quicker again.

This is getting close?

[Farmer John]

Also someone in the pit describes it as Soundgarden meets Tom Petty

This could go one of two ways

Tomgarden

Soundpetty

I'm listening

[scrub12]

[bodysnatcher]

Just to mention, he did say the shirt wasn’t the album art

[E.H. Ruddock]

WHERES THE NEW ALBUM? I WANT IT NOW! NOW! NOW! NOW!

You got played big time

[scrub12]

Just to mention, he did say the shirt wasn’t the album art

Thank god.

[Farmer John]

That "artwork" is actually Stone's colonoscopy.

[bodysnatcher]

Someone please rename the poop thread to Dark Matter

[Sgt. Crackpot]

Someone please rename the poop thread to Dark Matter

I got you boo

[scrub12]

Here we go. Jonathan Cohen was there.

https://www.spin.com/2024/01/pearl-jam- ... -playback/

Specific details such as song titles and lyrics are being kept under wraps for now, but SPIN can confidently report that the album offers a little bit of everything for the longtime Pearl Jam fan. “No hyperbole — I think this is our best work,” enthused Vedder, who later poured tequila shots for the assembled audience. “I couldn’t be prouder of us as a band,” added Ament, who briefly got emotional while describing the experience of making the album.

The LP features several intense rockers which showcase the ever-powerful drumming of Matt Cameron and the panache of guitarist Mike McCready, whose solos are more prominent here than on 2020’s Gigaton. One has a chorus particularly tailor-made for chanting and fist-pumping.

A couple songs nod to the chiming, acoustic-flavored sound of the late Tom Petty, while another has the loping, off-kilter feel of past Pearl Jam tunes such as “Parachutes” and “All Those Yesterdays.” Thematically, Vedder is writing about human connection (or lack thereof), aging, parenting and the state of the world. “We’re still looking for ways to communicate,” he said.

Perhaps the song with most “classic” Pearl Jam feel was actually conceptualized while Vedder and Watt were working on something else, but that story will have to wait for now.

Vedder made his solo album Earthling at lifelong Pearl Jam fan Watt’s Beverly Hills home studio in 2021, and the idea to bring Pearl Jam there to make their own album was hatched during that time (during the first session, band members didn’t even bring instruments with them to Los Angeles from Seattle). He added that parts of the upcoming record were tracked at Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La studio after Watt’s was rendered unusable due to flooding. “That space had a vibration to it,” Vedder said of Shangri-La. “I used every bit I could get.”

The Troubadour setting for the playback was apropos, as Vedder recalled Pearl Jam playing there in October 1991 just as their Epic debut album Ten was beginning to explode. He said the band was horrified to find the interior of the club plastered with Pearl Jam promotional material, which they then ripped down in front of the record label staffers who’d just set them up. “I want to apologize to them” he said. “Thanks for sticking with us.”

[mvw]

Waiting For Stooly

[DeeDee]

Sounded pretty good guys, if you like fast punk songs with raspy Ed

Please no.

Please.

[spike]

Fitting a Pearl Jam listening party takes place at early bird special o’clock.

[Rangi Guy]

Here we go. Jonathan Cohen was there.

https://www.spin.com/2024/01/pearl-jam- ... -playback/

Specific details such as song titles and lyrics are being kept under wraps for now, but SPIN can confidently report that the album offers a little bit of everything for the longtime Pearl Jam fan. “No hyperbole — I think this is our best work,” enthused Vedder, who later poured tequila shots for the assembled audience. “I couldn’t be prouder of us as a band,” added Ament, who briefly got emotional while describing the experience of making the album.

The LP features several intense rockers which showcase the ever-powerful drumming of Matt Cameron and the panache of guitarist Mike McCready, whose solos are more prominent here than on 2020’s Gigaton. One has a chorus particularly tailor-made for chanting and fist-pumping.

A couple songs nod to the chiming, acoustic-flavored sound of the late Tom Petty, while another has the loping, off-kilter feel of past Pearl Jam tunes such as “Parachutes” and “All Those Yesterdays.” Thematically, Vedder is writing about human connection (or lack thereof), aging, parenting and the state of the world. “We’re still looking for ways to communicate,” he said.

Perhaps the song with most “classic” Pearl Jam feel was actually conceptualized while Vedder and Watt were working on something else, but that story will have to wait for now.

Vedder made his solo album Earthling at lifelong Pearl Jam fan Watt’s Beverly Hills home studio in 2021, and the idea to bring Pearl Jam there to make their own album was hatched during that time (during the first session, band members didn’t even bring instruments with them to Los Angeles from Seattle). He added that parts of the upcoming record were tracked at Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La studio after Watt’s was rendered unusable due to flooding. “That space had a vibration to it,” Vedder said of Shangri-La. “I used every bit I could get.”

The Troubadour setting for the playback was apropos, as Vedder recalled Pearl Jam playing there in October 1991 just as their Epic debut album Ten was beginning to explode. He said the band was horrified to find the interior of the club plastered with Pearl Jam promotional material, which they then ripped down in front of the record label staffers who’d just set them up. “I want to apologize to them” he said. “Thanks for sticking with us.”

Really excited to hear the one tailor made for chanting and fist-pumping!