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Wartime, for everything else that’s wrong with it, brings out the best in Pearl Jam: the power-chord brawn, contrary righteousness and metallic-KO songwriting sense. The band’s second and third albums, 1993’s bluntly titled Vs. and 1994’s Vitalogy, are as good as modern rock-in-opposition gets: shotgun guitars, incendiary bass and drums, and Eddie Vedder’s scalded-dog howl, all discharged in backs-to-the-wall fury and union.This album, Pearl Jam’s first studio release in four years and their …

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