Dark Matter Reviews

[Ms Harmless]

While I personally really like Dark Matter and enjoy Running more than most here, the review saying that these tracks are not the standouts is reassuring. He's almost mocking them the way he calls them the obligatory hard rocking songs on latter day PJ albums which I don't agree with, because I think these songs are at least good to very good, but it bodes well for the rest of the album

very much so

[Gigalogy84]

I’m liking these reviews. I’m looking for to hearing the rest of the album in particular Scared of Fear, React Respond, Waiting For Stevie, and Setting Sun. We all have no idea what Scared of Fear and Setting Sun sound like since they weren’t included in the metal door clips. Except I think that ambient segment that was teased in earlier videos of the album/tour announcement is the beginning of Scared of Fear. At least that’s what I’m thinking after reading the Stone interview with Spin.

[Ms Harmless]

I’m liking these reviews. I’m looking for to hearing the rest of the album in particular Scared of Fear, React Respond, Waiting For Stevie, and Setting Sun. We all have no idea what Scared of Fear and Setting Sun sound like since they weren’t included in the metal door clips. Except I think that ambient segment that was teased in earlier videos of the album/tour announcement is the beginning of Scared of Fear. At least that’s what I’m thinking after reading the Stone interview with Spin.

that ambient clip is my favourite few seconds we've heard from the album so far, I can't wait to hear where it belongs

[stip]

One of the reviews or listening party commmentaries placed it, but I forget which song

[Val]

I’m liking these reviews. I’m looking for to hearing the rest of the album in particular Scared of Fear, React Respond, Waiting For Stevie, and Setting Sun. We all have no idea what Scared of Fear and Setting Sun sound like since they weren’t included in the metal door clips. Except I think that ambient segment that was teased in earlier videos of the album/tour announcement is the beginning of Scared of Fear. At least that’s what I’m thinking after reading the Stone interview with Spin.

that ambient clip is my favourite few seconds we've heard from the album so far, I can't wait to hear where it belongs

I don’t think I heard it.
Can anyone please share a link?

[Ms Harmless]

I’m liking these reviews. I’m looking for to hearing the rest of the album in particular Scared of Fear, React Respond, Waiting For Stevie, and Setting Sun. We all have no idea what Scared of Fear and Setting Sun sound like since they weren’t included in the metal door clips. Except I think that ambient segment that was teased in earlier videos of the album/tour announcement is the beginning of Scared of Fear. At least that’s what I’m thinking after reading the Stone interview with Spin.

that ambient clip is my favourite few seconds we've heard from the album so far, I can't wait to hear where it belongs

I don’t think I heard it.
Can anyone please share a link?

https://twitter.com/PearlJam/status/175 ... uuxrQ&s=19

[joostone]

Music Journalism is pretty fucked up these days anyway. But to be fair albums reviews always sucked hard.

The weird thing with most music reviews nowadays is that they are almost always positive. Most music magazines or blogs write for their own audience since it's kinda hard to sell magazines nowadays. So they tend to write towards their audience or own niche. Just check Metacritic and click on all reviews.... Almost all reviews are positive. And that's not the case with books, movies or games.

[Aunt_Claire_Foy]

One of the reviews or listening party commmentaries placed it, but I forget which song

Upper Hand, from the Uncut review a few pages back.

[VinylGuy]

Music Journalism is pretty fucked up these days anyway. But to be fair albums reviews always sucked hard.

The weird thing with most music reviews nowadays is that they are almost always positive. Most music magazines or blogs write for their own audience since it's kinda hard to sell magazines nowadays. So they tend to write towards their audience or own niche. Just check Metacritic and click on all reviews.... Almost all reviews are positive. And that's not the case with books, movies or games.

yeah, and they dont really talk about the music that much.

[stip]

One of the reviews or listening party commmentaries placed it, but I forget which song

Upper Hand, from the Uncut review a few pages back.

there you have it

[Leatherhead]

“My ears hear a lot of Pearl Jam musical DNA on their new LP,” longtime fan and “Pearl Jam 20” author Jonathan Cohen tweeted after hearing the new album. Cohen even went as far as to compare some of the new songs to ones most of us are already familiar with, and it seems out of all the Pearl Jam albums, “Yield” and “Binaural” are the two that received the most comparisons.
In Cohen’s opinion, the new songs “Scared of Fear” and “Wreckage” have “Yield” vibes receiving comparisons to “MFC” and “Wishlist” respectively; “Won’t Tell” has influences from “Light Years” off of “Binaural;” and the songs “React, Respond,” “Upper Hand,” and “Setting Sun” sound like a combination of the two albums, with “React, Respond” specifically being compared to “Brain of J” and “God’s Dice.”

[sweeper]

https://13thfloor.co.nz/pearl-jam-dark- ... um-review/

[joostone]

Wow...thats an informative review!

[BootsToAsses]

That's a great review. I'm very excited to read that it seems like a real band album with everybody having the spotlight.

[joostone]

The one thing I hoped for with Watt producing is that he would acknowledge Stone's riffs as being one of the key elements in PJ. Eddie didnt gravitated to those riffs for a long long time. But seemed Eddie listened to the uber fan Watt.

[Val]

A few too many mentions of the word "punk" in that review for my liking

[Anders]

The one thing I hoped for with Watt producing is that he would acknowledge Stone's riffs as being one of the key elements in PJ. Eddie didnt gravitated to those riffs for a long long time. But seemed Eddie listened to the uber fan Watt.

Agreed.

[Birds in Hell]

https://13thfloor.co.nz/pearl-jam-dark-matter-monkeywrench-republic-album-review/

Dark Matter's centrepiece, Upper Hand, starts out sounding like the guitar from Where The Streets Have No Name if it were possessed by the ghost of Syd Barrett. The song shifts abruptly into a mid-tempo southern rock infused ballad ...

There's unfortunately no way this song sounds as batshit insane as this description.

[Jorge]

I'm sorry to be mean but that is one of the worst written reviews I've ever read

[Val]

https://13thfloor.co.nz/pearl-jam-dark-matter-monkeywrench-republic-album-review/

Dark Matter's centrepiece, Upper Hand, starts out sounding like the guitar from Where The Streets Have No Name if it were possessed by the ghost of Syd Barrett. The song shifts abruptly into a mid-tempo southern rock infused ballad ...

There's unfortunately no way this song sounds as batshit insane as this description.

I immediately thought of Marker In The Sand.
Doesn’t it also start out as something promising but almost immediately degenerated into a forgettable riff?