Lightning Bolt reviews in one place/thread?

En La Clandestinidad
En La Clandestinidad Telford, PA by way of Kansas City, MO and Milwaukee, WI, Phoenix, AZ and East Greenbush, NY Posts: 3,692
edited December 2013 in The Porch
Hey all, is there someone who's here all the time, dimitris?? who could go ahead and set up a thread where we can get all of the reviews from around the internets in one place? Maybe even get it stickied? Looking at you Kat :mrgreen:

Maybe links with cool vids and articles, etc.

I'd love to have a one stop shop, but I am not here that often and also miss a heck of a lot of info.

Thanks!

P.S. I am really digging the album so far!
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  • fife
    fife Posts: 3,327
    here is one i found.

    i find it funny that demi is already listed in the comments.

    http://www.clashmusic.com/features/albu ... tning-bolt
  • Veddernarian
    Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
    NOW
    FLASHING OLD FORM Pearl Jam strikes again with vintage 'Lightning'
    JIM FARBER MUSIC CRITIC
    8 October 2013
    New York Daily News

    NYDN

    SPORTS FINAL REPLATE

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    Pearl Jam "Lightning Bolt"

    (Mechanic/Republic Records) 4 Stars

    Pearl Jam reverts to type on its latest CD. While the band's previous work, 2009's "Backspacer," peeled out the leanest, fastest and most positive-minded music of the group's long career, "Lightning Bolt" works like a boomerang. Much of it has the thick-- bottomed rhythms, hard-nosed guitars and darkened tone of classic Pearl Jam. The echo comes at an apt time. Think about it: Pearl Jam titled its first CD, "Ten." Now they're releasing their 10th studio work. Rest assured, the new disc offers key sounds and sensibilities the band never would have found in its early-'90s breakthrough days. But mainly it pays homage to Pearl Jam's core style, proving it to be remarkably durable and fresh. In the concussively rocking "My Father's Son," righteous growler Eddie Vedder reinhabits the angry young man of his youth, railing at a psychopathic dad whose genes infect him. In "Pendulum," he grouses: "Easy come/easy go/easy left me a long time ago," while the bass line broods through an essential grunge groove. "Swallowed Whole" repeats Vedder's avowed Pete Townshend fetish, down to nicking Roger Daltrey's stutter. Songs like the opener "Getaway" or the title track fire off riffs that stand with the band's most involving. While Pearl Jam's last CD kept every cut terse and broke fresh ground in new wave, here the songs snake on longer and only a few offer something new. "Let the Records Play" coils around a blues-rock riff that could have been created by Peter Green in 1968, while "Sleeping by Myself" has a lonesome country gait unlike anything the band has ever cut. To boot, many songs spin in a more positive direction than a younger Vedder would have allowed, especially the finale, the rather sappy "Future Days."

    If all this makes for an unsurprising CD, the conformity makes sense. After all, Pearl Jam stands as the only top grunge band that never came up for air, as well as one of the few rock groups of the last 20 years still blessed with an undiminished audience. It seems that, all these years later, it's enough that the band's new music matches its high and pleasing standard. Pearl Jam headlines Barclays Center Oct. 18 and 19.

    Caption: Pearl Jam harks back to its original style for their 10th studio release.Pearl Jam's latest CD, "Lightning Bolt"
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  • Veddernarian
    Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-time ... -Pearl-Jam
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  • Veddernarian
    Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/0 ... ertainment
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  • Stephen Flow
    Stephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    Veddernarian wrote:
    thick-bottomed rhythms

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  • Veddernarian
    Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
    ENTERTAINM

    SPINNING AROUND

    andrea beattie

    Paul McBride, Andrea Beattie, Charley Rico, Nick Mason, Tyson Wray

    1174 words

    10 October 2013



    MX (Australia)

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    © 2013 News Limited. All rights reserved.


    Lightning Bolt

    Pearl Jam

    * * * *

    OH, Pearl Jam, how I love you. You were the band that informed my youth in the '90s and now in your third decade together, your latest album Lightning Bolt is hitting all the right notes. Like a fine wine, lead singer Eddie Vedder just keeps getting better with age. Now that the band are well into middle-age, ultimately, they're going to start writing about their mortality, but set it to the right tune and it's not all morbid. A particular favourite is Infallible, which sits at the centre of the 12-track album -- it is very much Pearl Jam circa 1990 but without all that moody angst. Vedder sings: ``Somehow it is the biggest things/That keep on slipping right through our hands/By thinking we're infallible''; the brother gets deep and lets loose with his signature screaming vocals. They get a bit folky on Sleeping By Myself, a song about a cheating spouse, unrequited love and loneliness. But again, Pearl Jam pull it off, adding in a twangy ukulele just for a twist. The best thing about Lightning Bolt is not just the music; it's the fact that despite Pearl Jam's astounding success, this is a band that are still pushing their limits, re-inventing while staying true. In the process they have produced an album that still vibes quintessential Pearl Jam, but is altogether different territory. (Universal)
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  • Veddernarian
    Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
    http://www.ilvelino.it/it/article/pearl ... 2171b1a00/
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  • Veddernarian
    Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
    Lightning strikes out demons

    Cameron Adams

    CAMERON ADAMS Music Writer

    353 words

    10 October 2013



    Daily Telegraph

    DAITEL

    Telegraph

    English

    Copyright 2013 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved


    Yes, it’s another Pearl Jam album. But it’s a really good one. Ten albums in, they’re very comfortable being Pearl Jam.

    Take Getaway . You can trace the DNA to umpteen Pearl Jam songs, but there’s still an energy that’s far from autopilot.

    Mind Your Manners continues their mission to find the sweet spot where the Dead Kennedys meet The Who.

    Sirens is the song commercial radio blokes will high five each other over — it’s your classic Pearl Jam FM rock ballad. Precisely the kind of one they spent a good few years deliberately avoiding.

    That’s the beauty of reaching this point in their career, Pearl Jam don’t seem to care what anyone else thinks — in the best possible way. Sirens has a beautiful, swooping chorus and 10 albums in they don’t try to sabotage it, but rather celebrate it. Well, it is almost six minutes long, so maybe that’s their own little protest against radio.

    Swallowed Whole is more classic ’90s grunge, microwaved for today where enough time has passed for it to be retro.

    Infallible has a bouncy, carnival feel no one saw coming. They carry it off well. And as carnivals go, it’s still suitably glum sounding.

    Let the Records Play takes a swampy diversion while frontman Eddie Vedder is right at home on the moody Pendulum — there’s a Cure vibe to some of this record.

    There’s some nice Hawaiian diversions in the otherwise turbulent My Father’s Son , as Vedder complains about his unhealed wounds and his DNA.

    Sleeping By Myself first appeared on Vedder’s Ukulele Songs solo album, but he quite rightly realised it had something special the band could add to it.

    The stripped-back Future Days closes proceedings on a sweet, if haunting, note — the once troubled frontman, now 48 years old, even gives a shout out to his now-absent demons.

    Bless.

    ALBUM OF THE WEEK LIGHTNING BOLT PEARL JAM [UNIVERSAL] * * * 1/2sounds like: the rock equivalent of comfort food in a word: solid
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  • Veddernarian
    Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
    Pearls of wisdom

    Andrew Fenton

    717 words

    10 October 2013



    Daily Telegraph

    DAITEL

    Telegraph

    English

    Copyright 2013 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved


    While Pearl Jam have rocked the ages, recent releases show them at their peak, writes Andrew Fenton

    During the encores at Pearl Jam’s recent concert in front of 40,000 fans at Chicago’s Wrigley Field, frontman Eddie Vedder turned to the band to thank them for “taking a chance on a young kid” and inviting him join the group more than 20 years ago.

    The emotional words of gratitude, to guitarists Stone Gossard and Mike McCready and bassist Jeff Ament in Vedder’s hometown, were heartfelt.

    “Yeah, how about that,” says Gossard, sounding chuffed. “We were pretty smart! He’s being too humble there — I think we’re lucky we got a chance to take a chance on him, I’ll tell you that.” It was just one highlight in a truly memorable night. Seven songs into their set, thousands of fans had to be evacuated into the stands because of an electrical storm and a torrential downpour, a suitably ironic way to debut songs from new album Lightning Bolt . After a two-hour delay, the band finally retook the stage around midnight — an hour after the noise curfew — and played the remainder of a blistering 32-song set that culminated in a 2am rendition of encore staple, Rockin’ In the Free World .

    “There were probably some parents with kids asleep in that neighbourhood who were not psyched about it,” Gossard says. “But it ended up being a great show and … for Ed, it’s his hometown and a place he has a lot of feelings for.” Reports back from the event suggest Pearl Jam are match fit for their Australian tour as Big Day Out headliners.

    “I don’t know if we were ready (to headline a festival) 10 years ago, but right now the band is playing better than ever before and we’re excited to come down and tear it up,” Gossard says.

    Lightning Bolt , the band’s 10th album, is the follow up to 2009’s well received Backspacer, their first US chart topper since 1996.

    Recording began early last year but the band wasn’t entirely happy with the results from those sessions. The album was finished at LA’s Henson Recording Studios earlier this year. In the interim: “Ed did a solo record and tour, I made a Brad record, there were some kids born, there was some time off,” he says. “It was like: ‘We’ve made nine records, we can take a little bit more time’.” While Gossard was the main songwriter in the early days, now all of the members show up with a handful of tracks for long-time producer Brendan O’Brien to either work his magic on or diplomatically set aside.

    McCready “who hasn’t necessarily written a lot of songs for the band” stepped up his game, penning the first two singles, Mind Your Manners , which bristles with raw punkish energy, and the emotive and melancholy Sirens — “two of the best Pearl Jam songs I think we’ve ever written”.

    Stylistically, those two cuts cover more ground than some bands manage in entire careers.

    During their ’90s peak, Pearl Jam arguably had more in common with classic rock, than with the cliches of grunge.

    “Grunge was just a concept somebody came up with after the music was already done, so, yeah, I think we were always a band that was influenced by hard rock, heavy-metal, punk and folk, and those things are always popping up in our music,” he says.

    “We’re more comfortable and confident than we were 15 years ago about who it is we are, and what we are doing … some of it is just as a 40-something person you look back on your life and go, ‘Wow, I’m lucky to even be alive, I should just enjoy myself.’ ” And although “all that’s sacred comes from youth” Gossard can see the band playing into their 70s”.

    “I don’t think that could ever become tiring,” he says. “I could see it evolve. I could see as 70-year-olds we probably wouldn’t be running around as much.”HEAR Lightning Bolt is out tomorrow. SEE PEARL JAM (WITH BLUR, ARCADE FIRE), BIG DAY OUT, SYDNEY Showgrounds, JAN 26. bigDAYout.coM
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  • Veddernarian
    Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment ... 75&ref=rss
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  • Veddernarian
    Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
    http://www.latercera.com/noticia/entret ... -mas.shtml
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  • Veddernarian
    Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
    Features

    SPINNING AROUND

    andrea beattie

    Paul McBride, Andrea Beattie, Nick Mason, Charley Rico, Tyson Wray

    1260 words

    10 October 2013



    Sydney MX

    NLSYMX

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    17

    English



    Lightning Bolt

    Pearl Jam

    * * *

    OH, Pearl Jam, how I love you. You were the band that informed my youth in the '90s and now in your third decade together, your latest album Lightning Bolt is hitting all the right notes. Like a fine wine, lead singer Eddie Vedder just keeps getting better with age. Now that the band are well into middle-age, ultimately, they're going to start writing about their mortality, but set it to the right tune and it's not all morbid. A particular favourite is Infallible, which sits at the centre of the 12-track album -- it is very much Pearl Jam circa 1990 but without all that moody angst. Vedder sings: ``Somehow it is the biggest things/That keep on slipping right through our hands/By thinking we're infallible''; the brother gets deep and lets loose with his signature screaming vocals. They get a bit folky on Sleeping By Myself, a song about a cheating spouse, unrequited love and loneliness. But again, Pearl Jam pull it off, adding in a twangy ukulele just for a twist. The best thing about Lightning Bolt is not just the music; it's the fact that despite Pearl Jam's astounding success, this is a band that are still pushing their limits, re-inventing while staying true. In the process they have produced an album that still vibes quintessential Pearl Jam, but is altogether different territory. (Universal)

    Charley Rico
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  • Veddernarian
    Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
    by Veddernarian » 07 Oct 2013 16:13

    http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20742772,00.html

    Music Review
    Lightning Bolt - Pearl Jam
    Reviewed by Nick Catucci on Oct 07
    1.21 JIGAWATTS! Pearl Jam's latest offering proves that the band still rocks even in mid-life

    It can be painfully obvious that Pearl Jam's got a surfer dad as head guru in charge. Three-quarters through their muscular and tender 10th album, Eddie Vedder, now 48, jumps on the itchy, pretty ''Swallowed Whole'' like a man fresh from a vision quest: ''Whisper songs inside the wind/Breathing in forgiveness/Like vibrations with no end/Feel the planet humming.'' Why shouldn't the earth move for a guy who, since the release of PJ's last album, married the mother of his two kids and saw his crew celebrated with the Cameron Crowe doc Pearl Jam Twenty?

    In fact, the band has thrived this long by heeding an oceanlike motion, shifting with crack assurance from choppy and punky to swelling and gorgeous, as if an enigmatic wind stirs it all up. Lightning Bolt hurls down a new, if unsurprising, preoccupation: mortality. Vedder wonders whether the bell tolls for him on the otherwise easygoing ''Sirens,'' a piano-plunking ballad to rank with their classics, and human life itself seems to be ''tempting fate'' on the album's knotty, lovely centerpiece, ''Infallible.'' That song is what every heal-the-world rock anthem should want to be when it grows up: profound enough not to pretend there's a solution — or that life doesn't go on. B+

    Best Tracks:
    ''Infallible''
    ''Sirens''
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  • H.Chinaski
    H.Chinaski Brooklyn, NY Posts: 1,602
    Enjoying it more each listen!
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  • Veddernarian
    Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
    Shortlist - EG

    Pearl Jam

    Patrick Emery

    PATRICK EMERY

    145 words

    11 October 2013



    The Age

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    First

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    © 2013 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au


    cd reviews

    Pearl Jam

    LIGHTNING BOLT

    (Universal Music)

    RATING: 3.5/5

    In 1993, American pop culture polemicist Tom Frank excoriated Pearl Jam as "digestible and predictable versions of formulaic heavy guitar rock". Twenty years later, and Pearl Jam's new album, Lightning Bolt, is testament to the band's resilience. Getaway, Mind Your Manners and My Father's Son pack the classic rock punch of Pearl Jam's glory days. There are the heavy ballads (Sirens, Infallible and Yellow Moon) while Sleeping By Myself offers a folksy glimpse into singer Eddie Vedder's sensitive side. The title track offers subtle homage to the Rolling Stones' Bitch; Let the Records Play celebrates rock'n'roll behind a blues veneer. The flannelette and slacker ethos may be memories, but Pearl Jam is still on the money.
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  • TJ25487
    TJ25487 Posts: 1,501
    This is one of the best threads around. Thanks OP. Album is getting great reviews except for a few people on this board.
  • En La Clandestinidad
    En La Clandestinidad Telford, PA by way of Kansas City, MO and Milwaukee, WI, Phoenix, AZ and East Greenbush, NY Posts: 3,692
    TJ25487 wrote:
    This is one of the best threads around. Thanks OP. Album is getting great reviews except for a few people on this board.

    Thanks!
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    “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
  • dottles
    dottles Posts: 9,209
    I can't post them now as I am at work, but I have photos of the reviews in NME (they aren't a fan) anfdKerrang (they are a fan) plus the article and review in Classic Rock magazine.
    2009 - Manchester. 2010 - Dublin, Belfast, London, Berlin, Arras, Werchter. 2011 - PJ20 i & ii, Montreal, Toronto i & ii, Ottawa, Hamilton. 
    2012 - Manchester i & ii, Berlin i & ii, Stockholm. 2014 - Amsterdam i & ii, Trieste, Vienna, Berlin, Leeds, Milton Keynes.
    2016 - Boston Fenway i & ii, 2018 - Amsterdam i & ii, Pinkpop, London i & ii, Padova, Krakow, Barcelona, Seattle i & ii. 
  • dottles
    dottles Posts: 9,209
    Gives you a flavour at least -

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    2009 - Manchester. 2010 - Dublin, Belfast, London, Berlin, Arras, Werchter. 2011 - PJ20 i & ii, Montreal, Toronto i & ii, Ottawa, Hamilton. 
    2012 - Manchester i & ii, Berlin i & ii, Stockholm. 2014 - Amsterdam i & ii, Trieste, Vienna, Berlin, Leeds, Milton Keynes.
    2016 - Boston Fenway i & ii, 2018 - Amsterdam i & ii, Pinkpop, London i & ii, Padova, Krakow, Barcelona, Seattle i & ii. 
  • bicyclejoe
    bicyclejoe USA Posts: 1,203
    The Guardian
    3 out of 5
    http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/o ... olt-review
    My Pearl Jam Road: 10/22/90 Seattle | 12/22/90 Seattle, Moore Theater | 9/29/92 Seattle, Magnusson Park, Drop in the Park | 9/5/93 The Gorge, with Neil Young and Blind Melon | 7/20/06 Portland, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall with Sleater-Kinney | 7/22/06 The Gorge, 10/21/06 Mountain View, Shoreline Ampitheatre, Bridge School Benefit | 9/21/09 Seattle | 9/22/09 Seattle | 9/26/09 Portland, OR | 7/14/2011 Eddie Vedder, Portland, OR | 11/29/13 Portland, OR

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