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joostone wrote:

Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament tries to escape flooding, fires and other form of life-threatening natural disasters in the grindhouse-inspired clip for his sinister new single, "Safe in the Car." The track will appear on Ament's upcoming solo album, Heaven/Hell.

"Safe in the Car" coheres around sludgy guitars and funereal organ. A string section adds a sweet veneer to the song's chorus, but any sense of relief is undercut by Ament's lyrics: "I don't feel safe anymore," he sings. Indie stalwart Angel Olsen provides additional vocals on the track, and Pearl Jam bandmates Matt Cameron and Mike McCready handle drums and guitar, respectively.

The video for "Safe in the Car" is set entirely in Ament's vehicle. Various images of doom recede behind him: thunder and lightning, crashing ocean waves, bursts of flame. "I was seeing Cormac McCarthy's The Road – you're driving to the coast and you're trying to get away from the nuclear winter and you have your dogs in the car and you're just trying to escape this horrible apocalypse that just happened," Ament tells Rolling Stone.

"[The directors] asked me what I wanted [the video] to look like and the first thing that came to mind was grindhouse," the Pearl Jam bassist adds. "I always loved the super high-contrast, dark look of that. It's the world coming to an end and trying to have a sense of humor about it."

Heaven/Hell is due out on May 10th. It's Ament's third solo LP and first since 2012's While My Heart Beats. Copies will be available for pre-order Thursday via Pearl Jam's website.

Ament says the new album came together almost by accident. "I usually end up having a group of songs that goes to the band, and then there are songs that don't feel right, or they feel too personal," he explains. "Maybe I get too far down the road with them lyrically, and I'm either apprehensive to give them to Ed [Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam's lead singer], or it just feels better for it to be in my voice. You keep working on these songs, and all of a sudden you have maybe a little group of three or four."

With a few songs complete, Ament decided to keep writing, composing mostly on piano instead of guitar. "Then [the music] really started to coalesce," he adds, "and feel like, 'OK, there's a record in this.'"

evenslow wrote:How are we not getting piano-based JA songs on a Pearl Jam album?????????

Tracklist:

The Noise the Noise
The Door
Safe in the Car
Hyperphagia
Drugs
Moment of Impact
The Voices
Somewhere
Are you Truing?
Choose Your Colour
Only One

Album Credits:

Recorded June - October 2017 by John Burton and Josh Evans at Horseback Ridge, Litho, Studio X & Warehouse

Additional recording by Floyd Reitsma and Jeff Ament

Mixed by John Burton and Josh Evans

Mastering by Joe LaPorta at Sterling Sound

Vox, piano, basses, guitars, keys, mellotron, other drums by Jeff Ament

Drums by Richard Stuverud

Drums on "Safe in the Car" by Matt Cameron

Guitars on "Safe in the Car" by Mike McCready

Vox on "Safe in the Car" by Angel Olsen

Vox on "The Voices" by Akira Ament

Strings on "Drugs", "Hyperphagia" and "Safe in the Car" by Brianna Atwell, Jordan Voelker, April Cameron & Alex Ho

Saw on "Drugs" by Jordan Voelker

String arrangements by Brianna Atwell and Jeff Ament

Arranging assistant by Josie Cameron

Layout by Regan Hagar

Art by Jeff Ament

"Maybe I get too far down the road with them lyrically, and I'm either apprehensive to give them to Ed [Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam's lead singer]

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GOT ME A BIG WAVE GOT ME A BIG WAVE GOT ME A BIG WAVE

VinylGuy wrote:So fuckin exiting.

guestT wrote:

"Maybe I get too far down the road with them lyrically, and I'm either apprehensive to give them to Ed [Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam's lead singer]

Jeff: "Ed, I have this idea for a song, it's called 'Safe in the Car,' and the car is a metaphor for like, privilege, or whatever keeps people feeling safe while the world falls apa--"

Eddie: (nodding thoughtfully)

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GOT ME A BIG WAVE GOT ME A BIG WAVE GOT ME A BIG WAVE

VinylGuy wrote:Good to see old Richard Stuverud on board again...and Matt and Mike.

So Stone and Ed are not featured. Yeah those two are the problem.

tragabigzanda wrote:

guestT wrote:

"Maybe I get too far down the road with them lyrically, and I'm either apprehensive to give them to Ed [Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam's lead singer]

Jeff: "Ed, I have this idea for a song, it's called 'Safe in the Car,' and the car is a metaphor for like, privilege, or whatever keeps people feeling safe while the world falls apa--"

Eddie: (nodding thoughtfully)

Spoiler: show

GOT ME A BIG WAVE GOT ME A BIG WAVE GOT ME A BIG WAVE