‘Much to be done,’ sings Eddie Vedder, hitching the words to a breathtaking melody during the finale of Seven O’Clock. ‘Much to be done,’ he keeps repeating. ‘Much to be done, much to be done.’ The song’s sentiment cuts straight to the heart of Pearl Jam’s first album in over six years. Gigaton captures the Seattleites pinballing between a sense of abject dread and a feeling of combative defiance as they confront our age of melting icecaps and fake news. The times they are a-terrifying, folks. But the songs? The songs are extraordinary. Gigaton often zips along so quickly that on first listen it’s easy to miss the details that make it so special – the surging riffs of opener Who Ever Said, for one, camouflages just how unorthodox its structure actually is. The scratchy garage-rock of ...
The Dusk in Us
1.A Single Tear 2.Eye of the Quarrel 3.Under Duress 4.Arkhipov Calm 5.I Can Tell You About Pain 6.The Dusk in Us 7.Wildlife 8.Murk & Marrow 9.Trigger 10.Broken By Light 11.Cannibals 12.Thousands of Miles Between Us 13.Reptilian
