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Eleven years on from their epochal debut Ten, an album that paved the way for the Seattle grunge scene, Pearl Jam may well have finally have laid the ghost of their past to rest. Riot Act reaffirms Pearl Jam's place in rock: not so much grunge survivors as experimental rock flag-wavers. These tracks are perfect slices of unreconstructed rock evidence that Pearl Jam never lost the art of penning memorable tunes. Check out the unsettling opener 'Can't Keep' and the strident dynamism of 'Save You'. Refined guitars, complete with concluding modest solo, produce a soothing, yet simultaneously achingly vulnerable song albeit one that is so middle of the road you can almost see the white markings.Īlthough maturity has served Pearl Jam well, this record is far from representative of a band growing old gracefully. The first single to be taken from the album, 'I am Mine', is as near as Pearl Jam have come to touch balladry. Riot Act explores this direction even further. 2000's Binaural straddled a laid-back experimental palette that left anyone pining for the Pearl Jam of old sorely disappointed. The bands eighth studio album, the eponymous Pearl Jam, was released in 2006. Pearl Jams contribution to the 2003 film Big Fish, titled 'Man of the Hour,' was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 2004. Right after the album was completed Krusen left the band in May of 1991. The band released its seventh studio album, Riot Act, in 2002. Videos for songs Even Flow, Alive and Jeremy would help the album sell over 10 million copies in the United States and contributed to the explosion of the Seattle Grunge scene. Ever since 96's No Code, their career path erred towards a semi-acoustic trajectory. In 1991 Pearl Jam released their first album Ten which had to wait more than a year to become a major success. While it may seem a brave move it hardly comes as a surprise.

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Instead, Riot Act is an album full of rustic melodies and angular guitars, a record that is more Neil Young than Nirvana. However, Pearl Jam have rejected this route.

Considering the decline in previous album sales, some might argue it would be the most sensible thing to do. Riot Act is the seventh album from the Seattle five-piece and the strongest indication yet of a band refusing to compromise their direction regardless of commercial pressures or musical trends.Ĭertainly, with the current climate favouring nu-grunge outfits such as Nickleback and Puddle of Mudd, now would be as good a time as ever for the Seattle band to return to the fray and deliver an album of anthemic-styled grunge. If ever a band stood for innovation rather than imitation then Pearl Jam are it.

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