Pearl Jam
Nearly 15 years after Ten, Pearl Jam finally returned to the strengths of their debut with 2006’s Pearl Jam, a sharply focused set of impassioned hard rock. Gone are the arty detours (some call them affectations) that alternately cluttered and enhanced their albums from 1993’s sophomore effort, Vs., all the way to 2002’s Riot Act, and what’s left behind is nothing but the basics: muscular, mildly meandering rock & roll, enlivened by Eddie Vedder’s bracing sincerity. Pearl Jam has never sounde…
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- Author: Stephen Thomas Erlewine
- Source: allmusic
- Date Published: 2006-5-2
- Added to Database: 2006-05-02