Red Mosquito

Tj wrote:Any Dark Matter leakage?

tragabigzanda wrote:Waiting for Stevie

E.H. Ruddock wrote:We're just being inundated with all the clowns that get kicked off of the Pit for less.

scrub12 wrote: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.”

Got Some wrote:Album name "DARK MATTER"

11 songs

1. Scared of Fear
2. React Respond
3. Running


Other song titles
"Dark Matter"
"Upper Hand"
“Waiting For stevie”
"Get To Go"
"Something Special" about Eds daughters
"Setting Sun" closing song


Its very heavy!!!!


Album artwork looks like Binaural

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:The album art cover sounded cool. "A little like Binaural, but with tendrils and a little spacey. Someone said it looked like a Wutang Clan symbol but on it's side"

11 tracks
A ballad about his daughters
Quite heavy in parts
Not like Gigaton, however still sounded like a "step forward" for this band

Oversize wrote:

Got Some wrote:live link appears to be taken down

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.

Anders wrote:

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:The album art cover sounded cool. "A little like Binaural, but with tendrils and a little spacey. Someone said it looked like a Wutang Clan symbol but on it's side"

11 tracks
A ballad about his daughters
Quite heavy in parts
Not like Gigaton, however still sounded like a "step forward" for this band

Oversize wrote:

Got Some wrote:live link appears to be taken down

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.

LetMeSleep wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:They’re so bad at stoking hype and keeping secrets. This “other project he’s working on with Andrew…” I wonder what it is?! A solution to the housing crisis?!

It could have been Earthling.

Wonder kept Vedder and Watt waiting for six hours before he showed up to the studio (says Vedder: “In between, we wrote a song, and it’s gonna be a Pearl Jam song, and right now the working title is ‘Waiting for Stevie.’”).

sweeper wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:They’re so bad at stoking hype and keeping secrets. This “other project he’s working on with Andrew…” I wonder what it is?! A solution to the housing crisis?!

It could have been Earthling.

I'm pretty sure it's referring to Earthling and not another Vedder/Watt project too. One of the Variety articles about it 2 years back had this reference below about how Vedder and Watt had to wait forever for Stevie Wonder to show up for their collaboration. The experience became one of the PJ tracks. I'm not sure why Cohen couldn't just say that directly since it's already been out there.

Wonder kept Vedder and Watt waiting for six hours before he showed up to the studio (says Vedder: “In between, we wrote a song, and it’s gonna be a Pearl Jam song, and right now the working title is ‘Waiting for Stevie.’”).

tragabigzanda wrote:

Anders wrote:

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:

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

bodysnatcher wrote:

scrub12 wrote:

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

Rangi Guy wrote:

scrub12 wrote: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!

96583UP wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

“No hyperbole — I think this is our best work,” enthused Vedder, who later poured tequila shots for the assembled audience.

he poured tequila shots at the gigaton one too!

for a sec i thought that article was a gag re-print of the gigaton review

then i just remembered Ed is an alcoholic

thesound wrote:We now know what the hold up is… the album has been going through the compression process…

“We made this record like a year ago,” Ament told the audience. “We’ve been sitting on it.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-ente ... best-work/