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Pearl Jam ‎– Lightning Bolt / Universal Audio CD / 3749367

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Pearl Jam ‎– Lightning Bolt / Universal Audio CD / 3749367

UPC 602537493678

 

Product Details:

Label: Universal ‎– 3749367
Format: CD, Album
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock
 
 
Description:

Lightning Bolt is the tenth studio album by the American rock band Pearl Jam. Produced by long-time Pearl Jam collaborator Brendan O'Brien, the album was released in the United States on October 15, 2013, through the band's own Monkeywrench Records, with Republic Records handling the international release.

The band began composing new songs in 2011, the album's first recording sessions took place in early 2012 before the musicians decided to take a break. As all band members got into side projects afterwards, work on Lightning Bolt only resumed in March 2013. The music for Lightning Bolt has a harder rock sound with longer songs in contrast to predecessor Backspacer (2009), and the lyrics convey singer Eddie Vedder's feelings on aging and mortality.

Preceded by a promotional campaign focusing on Pearl Jam's website and social network profiles and two moderately successful singles, "Mind Your Manners" and "Sirens", Lightning Bolt was well-received by critics, who considered the album an effective return to the band's old sound, and topped the charts in the United States, Canada, and Australia.

 

 
Editorial Review:
Perhaps it's destined that a band who considered the Who and Neil Young idols would have no quarrel with middle age; nevertheless, the settled nature of Pearl Jam's Lightning Bolt comes as a bit of a jolt. Long ago, Pearl Jam opted out of the rat race, choosing to abandon MTV and album rock radio, ready to take any fans who came their way, and in a way, Lightning Bolt -- their tenth studio album, arriving 22 years after the first -- is a logical extension of that attitude, flirting with insouciance even at its loudest moments. Often, this record seems to ignore the very idea of immediacy; even when the tempos are rushed and the amplifiers are revved up, Pearl Jam never quite seem to be rocking with abandon, choosing to settle into comforting cacophony instead. Then again, nothing on Lightning Bolt -- not the wannabe breakneck rocker "Mind Your Manners," not the tightly coiled title track, not the glam stomp of "Let the Records Play" -- proceeds with any manner of urgency, with even the loudest rockers unveiled at a measured pace that allows plenty of space for solos by Mike McCready. The guitarist has room to roam and the band has a supple, natural interplay that only comes from almost 30 years of collaboration, but here more than ever, all the emotional notes seem to derive from Eddie Vedder, who is not only the chief songwriter/lyricist but a spiritual touchstone. Eying the milestone of 50, Vedder is very comfortable in his skin: he's no longer raging against the dying light or tilting at windmills, he's choosing his battles, knowing when to lie back so he can enjoy the rush of rock pushed out from his familiar, but never lazy, colleagues. This unhurriedness may seem to run counter to the rebellious spirit of rock & roll, but for all their insurrectionist acts, Pearl Jam weren't upstarts: they eagerly accepted the torch of arena rock when it was handed to them. On Lightning Bolt, they've grown into that classic rock mantle, accentuating the big riffs and bigger emotions, crafting songs without a worry as to whether they're hip or not and, most importantly, enjoying the deep-rooted, nervy arena rock that is uniquely their own.
 
 

Tracklist:

1 Getaway
Written-By – Vedder
03:26
2 Mind Your Manners
Music By – McCready, Words By – Vedder
02:38
3 My Father's Son
Bass [Six String] – McCready, Music By – Ament, Words By – Vedder
03:04
4 Sirens
Backing Vocals – Cameron, Music By – McCready, Words By – Vedder
05:39
5 Lightning Bolt
Written-By – Vedder
04:13
6 Infallible
Music By – Ament, Gossard, Words By – Vedder
05:20
7 Pendulum
Bongos – Gossard, Guitar [Bowed], Keyboards – Ament, Music By – Ament, Gossard, Words By – Vedder
03:41
8 Swallowed Whole
Written-By – Vedder
03:51
9 Let The Records Play
Music By – Gossard, Words By – Vedder
03:44
10    
Sleeping By Myself
Ukulele – Vedder, Written-By – Vedder
03:01
11 Yellow Moon
Music By – Ament, Words By – Vedder
03:50
12 Future Days
Written-By – Vedder
04:22

 

 

More Details:

  • Artwork [Additional] – Andy Smetanka
  • Artwork [Album Art] – Don Pendleton
  • Artwork [Album Concept] – Don Pendleton, Jeff Ament
  • Bass – Jeff Ament
  • Crew [In Studio: Drums] – Neil Hundt
  • Crew [In Studio: Guitars] – George A. Webb III, Josh Evans
  • Drums, Percussion – Matt Cameron
  • Engineer [Recording] – Billy Joe Bowers, Floyd Reitsma, John Burton, Lowell Reynolds, Martin Cooke (2), Nick Didia, Tom Syrowski, Tom Tapley
  • Guitar – Mike McCready, Stone Gossard
  • Guitar, Vocals – Eddie Vedder
  • Layout – Jeff Ament, Jerome Turner, Joe Spix
  • Mastered By – Billy Joe Bowers*
  • Musician [Additional], Guitar, Keyboards – Brendan O'Brien
  • Musician [Additional], Keyboards – Kenneth "Boom" Gaspar
  • Musician [Additional], Violin – Ann Marie Simpson
  • Photography By – Danny Clinch
  • Producer, Mixed By – Brendan O'Brien

 

 

About the Band:

Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in 1990 in Seattle, Washington. The band's lineup consists of founding members Jeff Ament (bass guitar), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar), Mike McCready (lead guitar), and Eddie Vedder (lead vocals, guitar), as well as Matt Cameron (drums), who joined in 1998. Keyboardist Boom Gaspar has also been a touring/session member with the band since 2002. Drummers Jack Irons, Dave Krusen, Matt Chamberlain, and Dave Abbruzzese are former members of the band.

Formed after the demise of Gossard and Ament's previous band, Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam broke into the mainstream with its debut album, Ten, in 1991. One of the key bands in the grunge movement of the early 1990s, its members often shunned popular music industry practices such as making music videos or giving interviews. The band also sued Ticketmaster, claiming it had monopolized the concert-ticket market. In 2006, Rolling Stone described the band as having "spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing apart their own fame."

The band sold nearly 32 million albums in the United States by 2012, and by 2018, they had sold more than 85 million albums worldwide. Pearl Jam outsold many of its contemporary alternative rock bands from the early 1990s, and is considered one of the most influential bands of the decade. AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine referred to Pearl Jam as "the most popular American rock & roll band of the '90s". Pearl Jam was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7, 2017, in its first year of eligibility. They were ranked at no. 8 in a reader poll by Rolling Stone magazine in its "Top Ten Live Acts of All Time" issue.

 

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