Pearl Jam's Gigaton is a bracing shot of rock: Review
But as dire as that sounds, what precedes and follows is not a collection of doomsaying brooders . It's a bracing shot of rock for a world currently enamored of big, blocky beats, bedroom pop, and ASMR&B. Those all possess aural delights of their own kind, but it's nice to hear a pushy, squalling guitar solo, some hard-hitting yet nimble drumming, and Vedder's just-beyond-linear-thought lyrics again in a classic context.
Produced by longtime technician Josh Evans and the band members — Vedder, guitarists Stone Gossard and Mike McCready, bassist Jeff Ament, and drummer Matt Cameron —opens with a staggering hat trick that may be among the band's best one-two-three punches ever and easily helps the album earn its explosive name.
The balance of the 12 tracks provides other pleasures but never quite reaches the vibrancy of this opening salvo, instead rising and falling like the EKG lines threaded throughout the album art. "Quick Escape" and "Seven O'Clock" both have the rare Vedder falsetto flights inside harder rockers.
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