Stone Gossard: I Want Pearl Jam’s Next Album To Make People Go, ‘Wow, That’s Unexpected!’

Though fans are yet to see Pearl Jam tour their incredible, 5K-rated 2020 album Gigaton, guitarist Stone Gossard has already been pondering what its follow-up could sound like, and how he’d like to “make another record that really shocks people”. And while Gigaton already contains many exhilarating new elements from the Seattle legends (bassist Jeff Ament previously called lead single Dance Of The Clairvoyants the “perfect storm of experimentation and real collaboration”), Stone tells Kerrang! that there’s potentially even more that can be done, referencing Radiohead’s transition from 1997’s OK Computer to 2000’s Kid A. “There’s some new territory there, and I think it bodes well for whatever comes next,” he says o...

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