12th album rumors and speculation

[DDWJMUVW]

Maybe the door is making things better. Remember the old muffled "Infallible" leak?

This thought refuses to leave my mind.
I'm still hopeful though.
We heard a lot more through that door than we did in the muffled Infallible leak.
Everyone's hard-on seemed to come from the Tremor Christ-like heavy strumming, which was the only thing discernible from that super crappy audio.

put on a good pair of phones - I can hear quite a bit more than that. Mike wailing in first song as an example.

[Jaeti]

Maybe the door is making things better. Remember the old muffled "Infallible" leak?

This thought refuses to leave my mind.
I'm still hopeful though.
We heard a lot more through that door than we did in the muffled Infallible leak.
Everyone's hard-on seemed to come from the Tremor Christ-like heavy strumming, which was the only thing discernible from that super crappy audio.

Ya.

[guitar_davey]

I gotta say, I didn't hear a lot of "heavy" in that clip at all. It also didn't give me any Gigaton vibes whatsoever, aside from the fact I could hear Eddie Vedder's voice.

[RockPusher]

Maybe the door is making things better. Remember the old muffled "Infallible" leak?

This thought refuses to leave my mind.
I'm still hopeful though.
We heard a lot more through that door than we did in the muffled Infallible leak.
Everyone's hard-on seemed to come from the Tremor Christ-like heavy strumming, which was the only thing discernible from that super crappy audio.

put on a good pair of phones - I can hear quite a bit more than that. Mike wailing in first song as an example.

After doing just that, I gotta admit, some of these riffs are stuck in my head. I'm excited. Yeah, we have no idea what it's gonna be like, and maybe the youtuber had to sift thru a lot of garbage to pick out the moments they did, but big smiles all the same.

[Farmer John]

Yes, if this is anything like The Fixer and Infallible behind-a-door leaks, this will be the best it will ever sound.

[DDWJMUVW]

Maybe the door is making things better. Remember the old muffled "Infallible" leak?

This thought refuses to leave my mind.
I'm still hopeful though.
We heard a lot more through that door than we did in the muffled Infallible leak.
Everyone's hard-on seemed to come from the Tremor Christ-like heavy strumming, which was the only thing discernible from that super crappy audio.

put on a good pair of phones - I can hear quite a bit more than that. Mike wailing in first song as an example.

After doing just that, I gotta admit, some of these riffs are stuck in my head. I'm excited. Yeah, we have no idea what it's gonna be like, and maybe the youtuber had to sift thru a lot of garbage to pick out the moments they did, but big smiles all the same.

yep - that mike solo in the first track is stuck.

I wonder if that's scared of fear.

I just hope the real thing doesn't sound thin and glossy. I quite like what I hear in these, but sometimes through a wall or door hides the imperfections and gives the illusion of heft and power when it doesn't actually exist.

[spike]

listening party instead of sending out advanced copies seems like a prudent way for pearl jam to operate in the internet leak era

But then comes a guy sneaking up at the back door with a smartphone

i'm really thinking it's all part of the hype-building... now we know where Stone was this whole time

[Jaeti]

Just popped headphones in. At 0:36 in the Youtube video I just might hear, "Combing through the wreckage..."

[Monkey_Driven]

Just popped headphones in. At 0:36 in the Youtube video I just might hear, "Combing through the wreckage..."

The second song sounds like Wrecker

[E.H. Ruddock]

Just popped headphones in. At 0:36 in the Youtube video I just might hear, "Combing through the wreckage..."

Maybe they are finally covering The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. IN!

[Jaeti]

This album is going to be full of good songs. Many may hate the production, but the songs are going to be good.

[rick malone]

But you still have Eddie post hair plugs vocals.

[bodysnatcher]

But you still have Eddie post hair plugs vocals.

Rumor has it he had to get a new set of plugs, which caused the delay of this album. The last tour his previous plugs fell out when he tried to sing Blood.

[stip]

I'm starting to get annoyed at how little has come out of this listening party. If I was there we would already have 3000 words to pick over. It's like people don't even care about this thread. Outrageous.

[Strat]

lol stip. You definitely should have been invited.

I do like the reports of Jeff getting emotional about it all.

[Strat]

I'm really hoping stone put that goddman semi hollow body down for this album and coming tour. Awful tone. Hate that thing

[Tj]

I think they will just drop this at midnight

[dad]

I think they will just drop this at midnight

let's not get carried away.

[Ledbetterdays]

What’s funny to me is either you want publicity or you don’t. This approach is oddly in between. The hard core already know they will listen to this. Everyone else won’t unless it is attached to some other trend. That’s how music works now. TikTok, commercials, big podcasts not Spin or any other old media outlet. When was the last time you listened to a song or album because of old media?

pearl jam are not promotion heavy but they havent been anti publicity in decades (since yield). you’d like people to know about what you’re doing but there are limits to how much work you’ll put into that awareness

and there target audience are still non hardcore gen xers who need to be reminded that this exists, and this is how things seep into people’s consciousness

My point is everyone in that room already likes Pearl Jam and no one outside of that room will care about anything anyone in that room writes, so if it is an event equivalent to a friends and family soft opening, then cool, why announce it publicly? It remains to be seen how this is or is not connected to further publicity, but at least with Gigaton we had some information by the time this type of event happened. I guess why go to any effort at all when you are in Pearl Jam's position? Just release the art. They are increasingly irrelevant to society as a whole compared to their peers, so if that matters, then embrace publicity, if not, then just record, do the cover art,and release as soon as its done. That would generate much more publicity.

[B]

Saturday is Boom's birthday. They're probably gonna announce then in celebration of the Gaspar.