Red Mosquito

I don’t know what is happening here.

Trag is having a meltdown

Omg haha this is great

Can’t wait for tomorrow ‘ s breakfast

Perfect score from Kerrang: https://www.kerrang.com/album-review-pe ... drew-watt/

lecherouslittlestump wrote:Perfect score from Kerrang: https://www.kerrang.com/album-review-pe ... drew-watt/

Great review...thanks, lecherous

lecherouslittlestump wrote:Perfect score from Kerrang: https://www.kerrang.com/album-review-pe ... drew-watt/

Thanks for sharing. Although Kerrang gave Gigaton the same rating, I do think that the 4 star reviews were selling this album short. It's better than that. I'd give it 4.5/5 myself. It's a top-tier album with mostly great songs. I'm liking it better than Gigaton at this time and I really think they have given us some all-timers in this one. There's perhaps nothing as left field as DOTC (React, Respond may come close), but the best songs really do hit it out of the park.

The extended outros, the hooky choruses, the soaring Eddie vocals, the blistering Mike solos. It's hitting all the sweet spots, for me.

These parts from the Kerrang review really resonated with me:

Perhaps best understood as a collection of songs detailing innocence lost and wisdom gained, Dark Matter moves deftly between moods, whether chewing on indignant rage on the title-track (not to mention Matt Cameron drumming his arms off), to calling for reconciliation on Got To Give. The range of subjects is staggering. Waiting For Stevie tells the story of a young woman finding refuge in live music over a bright, slinking guitar line while Won’t Tell… Well, that one will keep you busy wringing your interpretation from its spectral lyrics.

Dark Matter is many things. It’s thrilling. It’s moving. It’s surprising. It’s a band still operating at the peaks of their powers. ‘Let us not fade,’ repeats Eddie at the end of elegiac closer Setting Sun. There seems little risk of that. Pearl Jam said it took three weeks to record Dark Matter. In truth, it’s the kind of record that takes a lifetime to make.

I laughed at this line:

Kerrang wrote: It would be an unfeeling soul indeed not to be moved by the sound of a man who started his career mourning the father he never really knew singing, now, as the dad who has given everything.

...and then I felt bad.

Aunt_Claire_Foy wrote:

Kerrang wrote: It would be an unfeeling soul indeed not to be moved by the sound of a man who started his career mourning the father he never really knew singing, now, as the dad who has given everything.

That's a pretty insightful take. Interestingly, I'm sure stip said the same, pretty much word for word, at some point within the past few days.

tragabigzanda wrote:I’m literally quoting others’ reviews from the cell phone recordings

“Remember when Trag started to quote random reviews from other posters because he got mad? That was when I kinda noticed he was gone”

lecherouslittlestump wrote:Perfect score from Kerrang: https://www.kerrang.com/album-review-pe ... drew-watt/

George from Kerrang is a proper PJ slut tho. Out of all the writers he's the gushiest.

Mike wrote:https://uproxx.com/indie/pearl-jam-dark-matter-album-review/

Did a RM user write this review?!

In the past, I’ve expressed mixed feelings about Watt. His fan-boyish methodology — such as wearing a different band T-shirt corresponding with the group he’s currently working with each day in the studio — verges on corny. (“We ignored that,” Vedder later said of Watt’s sartorial-oriented cheerleading.)

lol

"And the plastic-y, slicked-up sound of his records is more Max Martin than Brendan O’Brien."

has he heard Brendan O'Brien recently?