Pearl Jam: Pearl Jam
CML call number: CD/ROCK/Pearl
Jon Pareles wrote in the New York Times: "'Once dissolved we are free to grow,' Eddie Vedder sings in 'Severed Hand,' a grungy garage-rock song on the band's first studio album since 2002. … Instead of chasing pop-chart success, Pearl Jam now … makes studio albums on its own timetable and tours regularly to arena crowds. … 'Pearl Jam' comes on like a fireball. Most of the songs -- like 'World Wide Suicide,' a bitter, furious tirade about a soldier's death and the prospect of endless war -- are fast and noisy, although the album pauses now and then for songs like 'Parachutes,' which suggests a John Lennon ballad with some skipped and added beats. Pearl Jam is now grounded as much in 1960's garage-rock and the psychedelic turbulence of Jefferson Airplane as in metal or punk. Mr. Vedder's lyrics have death, war, morality and faith very much on their mind -- with a digression on surfing in 'Big Wave' -- and he's not offering many answers. But arguments with himself are incarnated in the way the guitars squabble, the meter turns irregular and the song structures take off on tangents" ("New CD's: Examining Identities," 5/1/06).
Jon Pareles wrote in the New York Times: "'Once dissolved we are free to grow,' Eddie Vedder sings in 'Severed Hand,' a grungy garage-rock song on the band's first studio album since 2002. … Instead of chasing pop-chart success, Pearl Jam now … makes studio albums on its own timetable and tours regularly to arena crowds. … 'Pearl Jam' comes on like a fireball. Most of the songs -- like 'World Wide Suicide,' a bitter, furious tirade about a soldier's death and the prospect of endless war -- are fast and noisy, although the album pauses now and then for songs like 'Parachutes,' which suggests a John Lennon ballad with some skipped and added beats. Pearl Jam is now grounded as much in 1960's garage-rock and the psychedelic turbulence of Jefferson Airplane as in metal or punk. Mr. Vedder's lyrics have death, war, morality and faith very much on their mind -- with a digression on surfing in 'Big Wave' -- and he's not offering many answers. But arguments with himself are incarnated in the way the guitars squabble, the meter turns irregular and the song structures take off on tangents" ("New CD's: Examining Identities," 5/1/06).
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