Pearl Jam’s first album in nearly seven years, “Gigaton,” released today, is the veteran Seattle band’s most satisfying and adventurous work since the Clinton administration.
For that, much credit must go to producer Josh Evans, who has worked for 15 years in various capacities behind-the-scenes with Pearl Jam and its individual members.
Recorded over the course of three years at the band’s own studio, “Gigaton” deftly balances songs unlike any in the Pearl Jam catalog (the electronic-flavored first single “Dance of the Clairvoyants,” which evokes The Cure and Talking Heads) with rockers (opener “Who Ever Said,” drummer Matt Cameron’s ‘80s metal homage “Take the Long Way”) and frontman Eddie Vedder’s signature soul-stirring anthems (the
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