Pearl Jam tracks from new album

Rabs · April 20

Theres a whole bunch just come up on their channel. Heres a few.
Pearl Jam - YouTube

mrkb · April 20

They're all on Spotify as the album was released yesterday

mikeyrob73 · April 22

listened to the album a few time now and i really like it

Dontgiveupyourdayjob · April 22

Yeah I've played it a few times this weekend and generally I like it. I think the songwriting is really strong - some of their best stuff in years IMO - but I'm not a big fan of the production style. Too heavily processed and too 'dense' and 'thick' sounding (not technical terms, but the best I can come up with to describe it!). On some tracks I think either/both the drums and the bass sound like they could be straight out of a synthesiser.

If you combined the more organic, sparse, rough around the edges production style of the likes of Vs or No Code with some of the songs on this album I think it would be superb. I reckon a lot of the tracks will work a lot better live rather than on the record.

mikeyrob73 · April 22

Dontgiveupyourdayjob said:

Yeah I've played it a few times this weekend and generally I like it. I think the songwriting is really strong - some of their best stuff in years IMO - but I'm not a big fan of the production style. Too heavily processed and too 'dense' and 'thick' sounding (not technical terms, but the best I can come up with to describe it!). On some tracks I think either/both the drums and the bass sound like they could be straight out of a synthesiser.

If you combined the more organic, sparse, rough around the edges production style of the likes of Vs or No Code with some of the songs on this album I think it would be superb. I reckon a lot of the tracks will work a lot better live rather than on the record.

agree @Dontgiveupyourdayjob i described it as " compressed" to someone the other day

couple of tracks ( Waiting for Stevie , Upperhand ) i cant wait to hear live

theatreanchor · April 22

Massively disappointed after the strength of Dark Matter.

Strat54 · April 25

Sounds like A.I PJ to me.

Teyeplayer · April 25

I’ve been listening to this on the drive in and out of work this week. It’s not bad, but it feels like an album of the Spotify age. It doesn’t feel like it has an identity. To my mind and ear, every PJ album so far is its own thing, it has an identity and sound -whereas this meanders between the last 5 albums.