This is a great review, other than the fact that it says their last album was released in 2000.

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If its debut album 15 years ago made Pearl Jam apprehensive with success, the Seattle quintet better buckle in for a return to eminence. On its eighth studio release--and first since 2000--the band socks away the adventurous experimentation that dogged some of its most recent records to investigate a post-September 11, war-ravaged world overflowing with urgency and significance. "It's the same everyday in a hell manmade/What can be saved, and who will be left to hold her?" lead singer Eddie Vedder wonders in "World Wide Suicide," one of several contemptuous rants on the Bush administration. Yet the album's spark is more than political. Songs like "Life Wasted," "Comatose" and "Big Wave" embrace the garage-rock past, as guitarists Mike McCready and Stone Gossard play off each other with the primal lucidity of a decade ago and drummer Matt Cameron, one of rock's best, adds raw backing vocals to Vedder's polished craft. But Pearl Jam also turns up some of its most harmonious works since "Daughter," including "Marker in the Sand," with its radio-ready chorus, the tuneful "Parachutes" paced by Gossard's divine strumming, and the burning narrative and Urge Overkill punch of "Umemployable." Finally Vedder pleads for a lover's return in "Come Back," a keyboard-soaked love song complete with a chilling Gossard solo. It's got a soulfulness that begs for Sam Cooke to sing it and an originality that shows that a vibrant and cocksure Pearl Jam is back in town--and ready to retake the world. --Scott Holter

thanks

Brace yourself for a bunch of these good reviews..this album has critical praise written all over it.

Apart from NME's 4/10 Nickleback-esque review.

NME is a rag.

Damn right. I don't care if the band gets a bad review if it comes from a proper journalist who objectively reviews it but the NME are too interested in 'cool' rather than music.

Nailed it on the head. Unfortunately they aren't alone in that categorypitchfork.

Amazon.com
If its debut album 15 years ago made Pearl Jam apprehensive with success, the Seattle quintet better buckle in for a return to eminence. On its eighth studio release--and first since 2000--the band socks away the adventurous experimentation that dogged some of its most recent records to investigate a post-September 11, war-ravaged world overflowing with urgency and significance. "It's the same everyday in a hell manmade/What can be saved, and who will be left to hold her?" lead singer Eddie Vedder wonders in "World Wide Suicide," one of several contemptuous rants on the Bush administration. Yet the album's spark is more than political. Songs like "Life Wasted," "Comatose" and "Big Wave" embrace the garage-rock past, as guitarists Mike McCready and Stone Gossard play off each other with the primal lucidity of a decade ago and drummer Matt Cameron, one of rock's best, adds raw backing vocals to Vedder's polished craft. But Pearl Jam also turns up some of its most harmonious works since "Daughter," including "Marker in the Sand," with its radio-ready chorus, the tuneful "Parachutes" paced by Gossard's divine strumming, and the burning narrative and Urge Overkill punch of "Umemployable." Finally Vedder pleads for a lover's return in "Come Back," a keyboard-soaked love song complete with a chilling Gossard solo. It's got a soulfulness that begs for Sam Cooke to sing it and an originality that shows that a vibrant and cocksure Pearl Jam is back in town--and ready to retake the world. --Scott Holter

first since 2000? um 2002

Gone and Inside Job are by my far my favourites songs and those fuckin reviews never talk bout them!!

reviews suck dicks,.....so fuck them

well at least the reviewer seemed to genuinely like it...that's cool

I have never heard of Pearl Jam being reffered to as "cocksure" before. Except for maybe Stone

thanks for posting. I'll go add this to the file

Is comeback really keyboard soaked? I hate keyboards!

I love how reviewers make it seem like PJ hasn't been good since 1991.

I like this reviewer, me and him are similar in many ways. We both like the new album, and he often forgets about Riot Act

haha, i love it. i think it's the first time i've seen a review refer to the band as "cocksure".

I know there is a lot of Boom haters here and I am sometimes too. But trust me, Boom is used brilliantly on Come Back and other songs. He makes the songs BETTER.

it's true