Thirty-four years they’ve been together, the kids from Seattle: Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Jeff Ament. Drummer Matt Cameron has twenty-six in his drumsticks. How, with the release of their twelfth studio album (between the countless shows recorded over time), do we explain that their glue holds together? Listen Scared of Fear stated at the opening: “ Is this what we’ve become ? » Vedder shouts. React, Respondresponds the group to the next title, with courage and strength riffs. That’s Pearl Jam. Doubt, assume doubt, but continue by turning up the volume. Where there is life, there is noise. Facing the darkness, crossing the ruins, healing the wounds, waging war on the war machine with guitars, rolls and shouts: “ Renounce the demagogues […] Deploy the dialog “, proclaims the title song. Nothing is won, but nothing is completely lost either, says Vedder in the decidedly beautiful Upper Hand : “ Bright lights make for dark shadows “. Hope against all odds.
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