Pearl Jam‘s Mike McCready has teased the band’s forthcoming album, revealing that it’s “heavier than you’d count on”.
The band’s record-in-progress is the follow-up to 2020’s ‘Gigaton’ and McCready provided some particulars concerning the album in a current interview with Traditional Rock.
“I’m hoping it’s gonna come out [in 2024],” McCready stated. “We have now a bunch of songs tracked. We labored with Andrew Watt, who’s a youthful pop producer-type man, however he’s actually a rock man at coronary heart — I feel we’re his favourite band. Once we had been within the studio with him this previous yr, he actually kicked our asses, obtained us centered and enjoying, track after track.”
Watt has beforehand labored with Miley Cyrus, Publish Malone and Lana Del Rey however has additionally had credit on albums from different rock artists, together with Ozzy Osbourne and Iggy Pop.
“It’s so much heavier than you’d count on,” McCready continued. “There’s the melody and vitality of the primary couple of information. Andrew pushed us to play as onerous and melodic and considerate as we’ve performed in a very long time. I really feel like Matt Cameron’s drumming has parts of what he did in Soundgarden.”
McCready additionally guarantees that followers will hear much more of his lead guitar work.
“For higher or worse, you’re gonna hear much more lead guitar from me, stuff I haven’t performed in a very long time. I went loopy, like with Chris Cornell and [our supergroup] Temple of the Canine on Attain Down, all these years in the past. I obtained to do it once more. Often the primary or second takes are finest. After that I begin fascinated with it and it doesn’t have the texture. However Andrew caught the lightning in a bottle, as they are saying.”
In the meantime, the band’s frontman Eddie Vedder just lately shocked younger musicians primarily based in Hawaii with brand-new guitars for Christmas.
Elsewhere, again in October, Pearl Jam launched a reissue of their second studio LP ‘Vs.’ in celebration of its thirtieth anniversary.
The bodily launch of the album featured a 2xLP ‘Dreamsicle’-colored vinyl in addition to a transparent cassette by way of the band’s official fan membership named “Ten Membership”. A Clear 1xLP will even be out there by way of Goal within the US and different worldwide retailers in addition to a basic 2xLP black urgent.
Just lately, the band had been introduced as a part of the first run of artists set to carry out on the 2024 instalment of Mad Cool alongside Dua Lipa and Deliver Me The Horizon.
