Dark Matter: Official Album Thread

[Arthur Morgan]

Wreckage is the catchiest song they’ve written in years.

No doubt. A confident, unabashed pop song that has GREAT lyrical content, imo

Glad they allowed themselves to do this.

[Hypnos]

Stip, clearly you,re doing something wrong.

[Arthur Morgan]

Now if I could only figure out a way to post said lyrical content….

[evenslow]

Wreckage is now on Spotify

[darthvedder81]

Wreakage now streaming on Apple Music. Next single?

[DeeDee]

And on YouTube too.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[headinspeakers]

Hi everyone. My wife and I went to cinema experience last night ... like others, sound was terrible. Regardless, my thoughts:

DM is a cohesive and thoughtful addition to PJ's discography ... Where I reach for certain runs on other albums, I anticipate, for now, wanting to play this thing from start to finish, which I really like. Where I have heard abundant lyrics delivering central themes on recent albums (looking mostly at Gigaton), I hear the music conveying the message here. like others, I also discern a lyrical arc across the whole album, which is ultimately, to me, one of perseverance and hope despite the daily struggles of our lives, our relationships with others, and perhaps most noticeably (for me), our relationships with ourselves. I don't hear Ed singing to Chris Cornell or other third parties in scared of fear, R/R, won't tell, upper hand, WFS, gotta give, and setting sun ... I hear him singing to himself. In that sense, it feels, to me, like a very personal record and one which resonates deeply for me... despite the hard times and the tumult of our daily lives, there are higher things and concepts we are called to pursue, like understanding and acceptance and love and we can't let our human experiences distract us from that pursuit. I hear a lot of "I won't give up on this endeavor no matter what" in the lyrics here. where Gigaton was, to me, outward and political, DM is self-encouragement and reassurance that we all have self-actualization in us. anyways. that's my take. emotional to hear the band we have all loved for decades delivering in such a powerful and triumphant way. the way several of the songs built and ultimately release with a mike solo literally brought tears to my eyes. mostly like a feeling of acknowledgement that we may be close to the end of the journey but that's ok. finally, with respect to the audiophiles in our midst, the ranks of which I aspire to join, I could not care less about how the drums sounded .... like shit, to be clear, through the cinema speakers.

[brisk]

Listening to Wreckage, I just can't get over how crap Matt's drums sound. The snare is so loud, like 0 kind of character.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[DeeDee]

Combing through the wreckage...

[evenslow]

great take headinspeakers.

[Thurman Murman]

Oh Wreckage is just gorgeous...easily my favorite of the 3 songs officially released so far.

[brisk]

The Running version on spotify has 'fucking' blanked out. Da fuq?

[Higgs]

Wreckage is now on Spotify

Well fuck. That was damn fine. I'm very happy with my Pearl Jam sounding like this.

Well, I wish they sounded better, but the song is really good on first listen.

Sweet.

[RockPusher]

Wreckage is now on Spotify

Sounds FANTASTIC there on highest audio quality setting

[Jaeti]

I am ssssssstill holding out.

Fucking. Leak.

[Ms Harmless]

I love love love Wreckage, it's gorgeous; the way it slowly builds, then breaks into that beautiful bridge, then outro... *sigh* in love

[Ms Harmless]

Oh Wreckage is just gorgeous...easily my favorite of the 3 songs officially released so far.

me too

[Lmdmusic]

Sounds amazing on Tidal hi res,, someone on Facebook just got the cd