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Pearl Jam’s 2024 release is the band’s 12th studio album. Consisting of 11 songs, the album was written and recorded in 2023 at the Shangri-La Studios in Malibu, CA, where the band simply plugged in and played with (Grammy-winning) producer Andrew Watt at the helm. The musicians faced one another in the same space and communicated sonically at the highest level. Writing and recording in a burst of inspiration, Dark Matter was born in just three weeks.

“We’re still looking for ways to communicate,” says frontman Eddie Vedder. “We’re at this time in our lives when you could do it or you could not do it, but we still care about putting something out there that is meaningful and we hopefully think is our best work. No hyperbole, I think this is our best work.”

"From the get-go, the grunge icons deliver some of their most hard-hitting work in recent years, launching into explosive tracks ‘Scared Of Fear’ and ‘React, Respond’, which are not dissimilar from the classics in Vitalogy and Vs. This time around though, they have not only ventured back to their roots, but combined it with their decades of experience." - NME

Released: 4/19/24