Nah, that's "Pendulum". I would've said the title track but it's way better live than on record.
Back to Gigaton - Love DotC, there's experimentation in the music, longest running time (hopefully not the same way Binaural's running time is elongated - lol ), cool art, cool song titles and 3 years in the making are stacking the odds that could make it my favorite PJ studio release since the Lost Dogs rarities collection and favorite album since Riot Act. I can't wait to hear it in its' entirety and have already bought a digital copy and a cd. Good times ahead....hopefully.
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Nah, that's "Pendulum". I would've said the title track but it's way better live than on record.
Back to Gigaton - Love DotC, there's experimentation in the music, longest running time (hopefully not the same way Binaural's running time is elongated - lol ), cool art, cool song titles and 3 years in the making are stacking the odds that could make it my favorite PJ studio release since the Lost Dogs rarities collection and favorite album since Riot Act. I can't wait to hear it in its' entirety and have already bought a digital copy and a cd. Good times ahead....hopefully.
Totally agree. It's interesting, someone posted the times of each song in another thread and, if those times are true, there isn't a song shorter than 3 and a half minutes, which leads me to believe while there may be straight ahead rockers, there will be no short, sweet punk driven songs (think MYM, CDM, Spin, Comatose, etc.).
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Also something I noticed: they're using the promo photos from Lightning Bolt on everything Gigaton so far. I'm curious as to why they haven't done any newer photoshoots for the new album. Just a thought.
The entire EV summer tour used photos from 2014... they just don’t give a fuck (in a good way) 🤷🏼♀️
Pearl Jam unveiled its upcoming 11th studio album “Gigaton” today at NeueHouse in Los Angeles during an intimate playback in Dolby Atmos sound — complete with frontman Eddie Vedder pouring tequila shots for attendees while the music blared. As previously reported, “Gigaton” will be released March 27 on the band’s Monkeywrench imprint through Republic, and is preceded by the Talking Heads-tinged first single “Dance of the Clairvoyants,” which dropped earlier this week.
Produced by the group in tandem with longtime collaborator Josh Evans, the 12-track “Gigaton” is arguably the band’s strongest and most diverse work since 1998’s “Yield.” It begins with the driving rocker “Who Ever Said,” with Vedder intoning, “All the answers will be found in the mistakes we have made,” and shifts directly into the similarly propulsive “Super Blood Wolf Moon,” featuring a sizzling Mike McCready guitar solo.
“Quick Escape” is led by a huge Jeff Ament bass groove, as Vedder narrates an international road trip armed with a “sleep sack, a bivouac and Kerouac sense of time.” “Alright” builds more slowly atop an uplifting melody, with Vedder offering, “if your heart still beats free, keep it to yourself.” Vedder said he is particularly proud of the lyrics on track “Seven O’Clock,” which evokes trippy, Pink Floyd vibes and finds him in full falsetto as the song winds down. “That one started as a jam early in the recording sessions, and then they moved on and did other things,” Evans tells Variety. “We went through and pulled out a bunch of different cool moments and cut them together, and then the band layered a bunch of new things on top of it.”
“Never Destination” evokes strident, uptempo Pearl Jam songs such as “MFC” with a tinge of U.K. post-punk, and features another strong solo from McCready. The Matt Cameron-penned “Take the Long Way” is a riffy monster in one of the drummer’s famous tricky time signatures, as Vedder shouts, “I always take the long way/ It leads me back to you.”
“Buckle Up,” written by guitarist Stone Gossard, surfs a dexterous major-key guitar line and is one of the more abstract songs on the album, but serves as the perfect lead-in to Vedder’s “Comes Then Goes,” sporting Pete Townshend-worthy acoustic guitar aggression and the memorable lyric, “We could all use a savior from human behavior.”
Evans says, “I think that vocal is maybe what we got on the first take. It was just about capturing the moment and being ready to hit ‘record’ to memorialize that feeling.”
“Gigaton” concludes with two exquisitely layered, slow-burning tracks. “Retrograde,” which dates back to recording sessions from 2017, is reminiscent of 2010-era Pearl Jam singles such as “Just Breathe” and “Sirens.” The song builds to a massive crescendo as Vedder repeatedly bellows the phrase “feel the sound.”
“River Cross” is the only song on the album previously performed live, albeit in Vedder’s solo concerts, and recalls Peter Gabriel-era Genesis songs such as “Carpet Crawlers” in its simmering intensity (lyrics include “I want this dream to last forever / I wish this moment was never-ending”). With Vedder on an 1850s-era pump organ and Ament on kalimba, it caps a gripping listening experience that found even Vedder choked up as he took it all in. “I’ve never had that much tequila in the afternoon,” he joked afterward.
“The pump organ on the finished track is from the original demo. The rest of the band felt it was so powerful,” Evans says. “They all put on these little delicate layers to help turn it into a true Pearl Jam song, like Mike with a little E-bow thing or Stone with just a hint of acoustic guitar. I even blended some synthesizers in.”
Pearl Jam’s notoriously diehard fanbase got their first taste of “Gigaton” on Jan. 11, when mysterious augmented reality billboards featuring Paul Nicklen’s album cover photo of a Norwegian ice waterfall appeared in 12 cities worldwide. Using a dedicated filter on Instagram or Facebook Lens, fans could watch the ice rapidly melt while an instrumental audio snippet from the album played in the background.
“The band wanted to scale something globally and create a unique fan experience so that wherever they were in the world, they were all discovering it in the same way at the same time,” says Pearl Jam management’s Scott Greer, who is overseeing the “Gigaton” marketing roll-out. “Everyone interacted with it differently. Some people were walking in front of the animation, and then we saw one little girl tapping on the moving waterfall. That engagement and interaction made it more than just a Pearl Jam album cover — it made it universal.”
Greer encouraged the band to mix “Gigaton” in Dolby Atmos and present it in that format at today’s playback to highlight Evans’ production work. Indeed, “Gigaton” is believed to be the first album released by the Universal Music Group in Dolby Atmos sound. “It’s such a unique way to experience the album and appreciate the level of effort the band put into it,” says Greer.
And River Cross is Cross River! “River Cross” is the only song on the album previously performed live, albeit in Vedder’s solo concerts" Need to check if the lyrics match. Edit: They don´t match. Maybe they changed them?
And River Cross is Cross River! “River Cross” is the only song on the album previously performed live, albeit in Vedder’s solo concerts" Need to check if the lyrics match. Edit: They don´t match. Maybe they changed them?
Maybe extended them, the album version is much longer
Pearl Jam unveiled its upcoming 11th studio album “Gigaton” today at NeueHouse in Los Angeles during an intimate playback in Dolby Atmos sound — complete with frontman Eddie Vedder pouring tequila shots for attendees while the music blared. As previously reported, “Gigaton” will be released March 27 on the band’s Monkeywrench imprint through Republic, and is preceded by the Talking Heads-tinged first single “Dance of the Clairvoyants,” which dropped earlier this week.
Produced by the group in tandem with longtime collaborator Josh Evans, the 12-track “Gigaton” is arguably the band’s strongest and most diverse work since 1998’s “Yield.” It begins with the driving rocker “Who Ever Said,” with Vedder intoning, “All the answers will be found in the mistakes we have made,” and shifts directly into the similarly propulsive “Super Blood Wolf Moon,” featuring a sizzling Mike McCready guitar solo.
“Quick Escape” is led by a huge Jeff Ament bass groove, as Vedder narrates an international road trip armed with a “sleep sack, a bivouac and Kerouac sense of time.” “Alright” builds more slowly atop an uplifting melody, with Vedder offering, “if your heart still beats free, keep it to yourself.” Vedder said he is particularly proud of the lyrics on track “Seven O’Clock,” which evokes trippy, Pink Floyd vibes and finds him in full falsetto as the song winds down. “That one started as a jam early in the recording sessions, and then they moved on and did other things,” Evans tells Variety. “We went through and pulled out a bunch of different cool moments and cut them together, and then the band layered a bunch of new things on top of it.”
“Never Destination” evokes strident, uptempo Pearl Jam songs such as “MFC” with a tinge of U.K. post-punk, and features another strong solo from McCready. The Matt Cameron-penned “Take the Long Way” is a riffy monster in one of the drummer’s famous tricky time signatures, as Vedder shouts, “I always take the long way/ It leads me back to you.”
“Buckle Up,” written by guitarist Stone Gossard, surfs a dexterous major-key guitar line and is one of the more abstract songs on the album, but serves as the perfect lead-in to Vedder’s “Comes Then Goes,” sporting Pete Townshend-worthy acoustic guitar aggression and the memorable lyric, “We could all use a savior from human behavior.”
Evans says, “I think that vocal is maybe what we got on the first take. It was just about capturing the moment and being ready to hit ‘record’ to memorialize that feeling.”
“Gigaton” concludes with two exquisitely layered, slow-burning tracks. “Retrograde,” which dates back to recording sessions from 2017, is reminiscent of 2010-era Pearl Jam singles such as “Just Breathe” and “Sirens.” The song builds to a massive crescendo as Vedder repeatedly bellows the phrase “feel the sound.”
“River Cross” is the only song on the album previously performed live, albeit in Vedder’s solo concerts, and recalls Peter Gabriel-era Genesis songs such as “Carpet Crawlers” in its simmering intensity (lyrics include “I want this dream to last forever / I wish this moment was never-ending”). With Vedder on an 1850s-era pump organ and Ament on kalimba, it caps a gripping listening experience that found even Vedder choked up as he took it all in. “I’ve never had that much tequila in the afternoon,” he joked afterward.
“The pump organ on the finished track is from the original demo. The rest of the band felt it was so powerful,” Evans says. “They all put on these little delicate layers to help turn it into a true Pearl Jam song, like Mike with a little E-bow thing or Stone with just a hint of acoustic guitar. I even blended some synthesizers in.”
Pearl Jam’s notoriously diehard fanbase got their first taste of “Gigaton” on Jan. 11, when mysterious augmented reality billboards featuring Paul Nicklen’s album cover photo of a Norwegian ice waterfall appeared in 12 cities worldwide. Using a dedicated filter on Instagram or Facebook Lens, fans could watch the ice rapidly melt while an instrumental audio snippet from the album played in the background.
“The band wanted to scale something globally and create a unique fan experience so that wherever they were in the world, they were all discovering it in the same way at the same time,” says Pearl Jam management’s Scott Greer, who is overseeing the “Gigaton” marketing roll-out. “Everyone interacted with it differently. Some people were walking in front of the animation, and then we saw one little girl tapping on the moving waterfall. That engagement and interaction made it more than just a Pearl Jam album cover — it made it universal.”
Greer encouraged the band to mix “Gigaton” in Dolby Atmos and present it in that format at today’s playback to highlight Evans’ production work. Indeed, “Gigaton” is believed to be the first album released by the Universal Music Group in Dolby Atmos sound. “It’s such a unique way to experience the album and appreciate the level of effort the band put into it,” says Greer.
thank you? A great read
"Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
1. Who Ever Said (5:11) 2. Superblood Wolfmoon (3:49) 3. Dance of Clairvoyants (4:25) 4. Quick Escape (4:47) 5. Alright (3:44) 6. Seven o'clock (6:14) 7. Never Destination (4:17) 8. Take the Long Way (3:42) 9. Buckle Up (3:37) 10. Comes Then Goes (6:02) 11. Retrograde (5:22) 12. River Cross (5:53)
"Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
I just don’t know what to say, to meet a man who has been so influential. Got to listen to Pearl Jam’s new album today, they are simply one of the most powerful bands of all time. It is sublime @mattricho0 and without doubt, will be even better live. Thank you King @faceypix for letting this halfcutter have a tequila shot with the great man and thank you Ross Knight @cosmicpsychos for sending a sneaky message to Ed 😉 #goosebumps
"Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
SONG OF THE WEEK: DANCE OF THE CLAIRVOYANTS For Fans Of: Other rock bands — Spoon, The Strokes, etc. — who have dabbled with the dance floor and come out on top or at least didn’t trample many toes.
Best Moment: Hearing Eddie Vedder’s throaty delivery and growl dance around Matt Cameron’s beat. It’s always fun to hear old friends find new ways to harmonize. Even if the new album isn’t everything fans hope it will be, it’s hard to imagine the band’s collaborative change-ups not helping to keep their live show as energized as ever.
Where to Go from Here: To the box office because we’re not about to miss Pearl Jam coming through our town. Still, we’re curious how this single fits into Gigaton as a whole. Is it a microcosm or an anomaly?
I just don’t know what to say, to meet a man who has been so influential. Got to listen to Pearl Jam’s new album today, they are simply one of the most powerful bands of all time. It is sublime @mattricho0 and without doubt, will be even better live. Thank you King @faceypix for letting this halfcutter have a tequila shot with the great man and thank you Ross Knight @cosmicpsychos for sending a sneaky message to Ed 😉 #goosebumps
The guy in the left is Fitzy aka Ryan Fitzgerald. A media personality (tv and radio) and former pro sportsman here in Australia.
I just don’t know what to say, to meet a man who has been so influential. Got to listen to Pearl Jam’s new album today, they are simply one of the most powerful bands of all time. It is sublime @mattricho0 and without doubt, will be even better live. Thank you King @faceypix for letting this halfcutter have a tequila shot with the great man and thank you Ross Knight @cosmicpsychos for sending a sneaky message to Ed 😉 #goosebumps
The guy in the left is Fitzy aka Ryan Fitzgerald. A media personality (tv and radio) and former pro sportsman here in Australia.
Cool dude?
"Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
I just don’t know what to say, to meet a man who has been so influential. Got to listen to Pearl Jam’s new album today, they are simply one of the most powerful bands of all time. It is sublime @mattricho0 and without doubt, will be even better live. Thank you King @faceypix for letting this halfcutter have a tequila shot with the great man and thank you Ross Knight @cosmicpsychos for sending a sneaky message to Ed 😉 #goosebumps
The guy in the left is Fitzy aka Ryan Fitzgerald. A media personality (tv and radio) and former pro sportsman here in Australia.
Cool dude?
I’m wondering why he was there? Maybe through his gig as a radio personality. Seems like he knows Ross from Cosmic Psychos too. Lucky bastards!
Thanks for sharing! I know I’m late but I just heard Stone’s intro to the song and that makes it even more interesting to me. Stone sounds like he loves it, and probably because it was basically him and Matt that created it.
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I think YM is a fantastic track. Great atmospheric track.
Agreed on Yellow Moon. That was one of my favorites from the album. That was like a jam band song, super hippie feel
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So what's the point here? I'm guessing a mach III-video is gonna be just the band.... like some Lady gaga reveal...
Is it to keep people coming back to watching the video? Is that the strategy? Or is there something to be gained from separating the views to several different videos with the same song that I am missing?
"Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
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Back to Gigaton - Love DotC, there's experimentation in the music, longest running time (hopefully not the same way Binaural's running time is elongated - lol ), cool art, cool song titles and 3 years in the making are stacking the odds that could make it my favorite PJ studio release since the Lost Dogs rarities collection and favorite album since Riot Act. I can't wait to hear it in its' entirety and have already bought a digital copy and a cd. Good times ahead....hopefully.
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Pearl Jam unveiled its upcoming 11th studio album “Gigaton” today at NeueHouse in Los Angeles during an intimate playback in Dolby Atmos sound — complete with frontman Eddie Vedder pouring tequila shots for attendees while the music blared. As previously reported, “Gigaton” will be released March 27 on the band’s Monkeywrench imprint through Republic, and is preceded by the Talking Heads-tinged first single “Dance of the Clairvoyants,” which dropped earlier this week.
Produced by the group in tandem with longtime collaborator Josh Evans, the 12-track “Gigaton” is arguably the band’s strongest and most diverse work since 1998’s “Yield.” It begins with the driving rocker “Who Ever Said,” with Vedder intoning, “All the answers will be found in the mistakes we have made,” and shifts directly into the similarly propulsive “Super Blood Wolf Moon,” featuring a sizzling Mike McCready guitar solo.
“Quick Escape” is led by a huge Jeff Ament bass groove, as Vedder narrates an international road trip armed with a “sleep sack, a bivouac and Kerouac sense of time.” “Alright” builds more slowly atop an uplifting melody, with Vedder offering, “if your heart still beats free, keep it to yourself.” Vedder said he is particularly proud of the lyrics on track “Seven O’Clock,” which evokes trippy, Pink Floyd vibes and finds him in full falsetto as the song winds down. “That one started as a jam early in the recording sessions, and then they moved on and did other things,” Evans tells Variety. “We went through and pulled out a bunch of different cool moments and cut them together, and then the band layered a bunch of new things on top of it.”
“Never Destination” evokes strident, uptempo Pearl Jam songs such as “MFC” with a tinge of U.K. post-punk, and features another strong solo from McCready. The Matt Cameron-penned “Take the Long Way” is a riffy monster in one of the drummer’s famous tricky time signatures, as Vedder shouts, “I always take the long way/ It leads me back to you.”
“Buckle Up,” written by guitarist Stone Gossard, surfs a dexterous major-key guitar line and is one of the more abstract songs on the album, but serves as the perfect lead-in to Vedder’s “Comes Then Goes,” sporting Pete Townshend-worthy acoustic guitar aggression and the memorable lyric, “We could all use a savior from human behavior.”
Evans says, “I think that vocal is maybe what we got on the first take. It was just about capturing the moment and being ready to hit ‘record’ to memorialize that feeling.”
“Gigaton” concludes with two exquisitely layered, slow-burning tracks. “Retrograde,” which dates back to recording sessions from 2017, is reminiscent of 2010-era Pearl Jam singles such as “Just Breathe” and “Sirens.” The song builds to a massive crescendo as Vedder repeatedly bellows the phrase “feel the sound.”
“River Cross” is the only song on the album previously performed live, albeit in Vedder’s solo concerts, and recalls Peter Gabriel-era Genesis songs such as “Carpet Crawlers” in its simmering intensity (lyrics include “I want this dream to last forever / I wish this moment was never-ending”). With Vedder on an 1850s-era pump organ and Ament on kalimba, it caps a gripping listening experience that found even Vedder choked up as he took it all in. “I’ve never had that much tequila in the afternoon,” he joked afterward.
“The pump organ on the finished track is from the original demo. The rest of the band felt it was so powerful,” Evans says. “They all put on these little delicate layers to help turn it into a true Pearl Jam song, like Mike with a little E-bow thing or Stone with just a hint of acoustic guitar. I even blended some synthesizers in.”
Pearl Jam’s notoriously diehard fanbase got their first taste of “Gigaton” on Jan. 11, when mysterious augmented reality billboards featuring Paul Nicklen’s album cover photo of a Norwegian ice waterfall appeared in 12 cities worldwide. Using a dedicated filter on Instagram or Facebook Lens, fans could watch the ice rapidly melt while an instrumental audio snippet from the album played in the background.
“The band wanted to scale something globally and create a unique fan experience so that wherever they were in the world, they were all discovering it in the same way at the same time,” says Pearl Jam management’s Scott Greer, who is overseeing the “Gigaton” marketing roll-out. “Everyone interacted with it differently. Some people were walking in front of the animation, and then we saw one little girl tapping on the moving waterfall. That engagement and interaction made it more than just a Pearl Jam album cover — it made it universal.”
Greer encouraged the band to mix “Gigaton” in Dolby Atmos and present it in that format at today’s playback to highlight Evans’ production work. Indeed, “Gigaton” is believed to be the first album released by the Universal Music Group in Dolby Atmos sound. “It’s such a unique way to experience the album and appreciate the level of effort the band put into it,” says Greer.
Need to check if the lyrics match.
Edit: They don´t match. Maybe they changed them?
1. Who Ever Said (5:11)
2. Superblood Wolfmoon (3:49)
3. Dance of Clairvoyants (4:25)
4. Quick Escape (4:47)
5. Alright (3:44)
6. Seven o'clock (6:14)
7. Never Destination (4:17)
8. Take the Long Way (3:42)
9. Buckle Up (3:37)
10. Comes Then Goes (6:02)
11. Retrograde (5:22)
12. River Cross (5:53)
Dance of The Clairvoyants - Pearl Jam (Tribute by Black Circle)
First live performance of the song.
For Fans Of: Other rock bands — Spoon, The Strokes, etc. — who have dabbled with the dance floor and come out on top or at least didn’t trample many toes.
Best Moment: Hearing Eddie Vedder’s throaty delivery and growl dance around Matt Cameron’s beat. It’s always fun to hear old friends find new ways to harmonize. Even if the new album isn’t everything fans hope it will be, it’s hard to imagine the band’s collaborative change-ups not helping to keep their live show as energized as ever.
Where to Go from Here: To the box office because we’re not about to miss Pearl Jam coming through our town. Still, we’re curious how this single fits into Gigaton as a whole. Is it a microcosm or an anomaly?
https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/01/pearl-jam-song-of-the-week-dance-of-the-clairvoyants/
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Is it to keep people coming back to watching the video? Is that the strategy? Or is there something to be gained from separating the views to several different videos with the same song that I am missing?