{"id":803317,"date":"2020-01-22T11:13:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T18:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=941221"},"modified":"2020-01-22T11:13:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T18:13:59","slug":"seriously-youve-got-to-hear-this-new-pearl-jam-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/seriously-youve-got-to-hear-this-new-pearl-jam-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Seriously, You\u2019ve Got to Hear This New Pearl Jam Song"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Long ago, during a brief \u201cecstasy phase,\u201d Eddie Vedder tried to write some techno music. \u201cI was listening to all this stuff on ecstasy,\u201d he told me in 2006<\/a>, during an all-night chat in a Cleveland, Ohio hotel room. \u201cBut I was wondering, \u2018Are they writing<\/em> it on ecstasy?\u2019 I decided that the pure way to do it is to actually take ecstasy, and then write ecstasy music. That didn\u2019t work out. But I enjoyed the ecstasy.\u201d Around the same time, guitarist Stone Gossard revealed a desire to experiment with Pearl Jam<\/a>\u2019s sound \u2014 if it were up to him, he said, the band might record a song or two that sounded like Steely Dan.<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s shockingly light-on-its-feet new single, \u201cDance of the Clairvoyants,\u201d from March 27th\u2019s Gigaton<\/a><\/em>, doesn\u2019t sound anything like either \u201cecstasy music\u201d or Steely Dan, but it is definitely the band\u2019s funkiest song in forever, with an obvious debt to Talking Heads (Vedder comes close, at points, to an actual David Byrne impression, which somehow works) rather than the Jane\u2019s Addiction\/Red Hot Chili Peppers vein the band liked to tap back in the days when Jeff Ament appeared to be borrowing his hats from Strawberry Shortcake.<\/p>\n

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There are also welcome touches of mid-\u201900s dance-rock, with guitar stabs that could be off Franz Ferdinand\u2019s debut (or perhaps from Vedder faves the Strokes) alongside what sounds like a mix of live and programmed drums and a striking bass line played by Gossard. It\u2019s also illustrative of the band\u2019s continuing commitment to anti-commercial perversity that they\u2019d choose to release one of their most radio-friendly songs of the century now<\/em>, when the prospect of Top 40 radio playing Pearl Jam is about as likely as MTV rehiring Kennedy for an Alternative Nation<\/em> revival.<\/p>\n

In 2013, on the eve of the release of the band\u2019s last album, Lightning Bolt<\/em>, Vedder told me that his goal for every Pearl Jam release, even now, is to top the rest of the band\u2019s catalog. The vibrancy of \u201cDance,\u201d alongside quotes from band members suggesting the song, co-produced by the band and longtime engineer Josh Evans, was a true collaboration, are welcome signs that \u2013 despite fears that solo projects, touring, and family life were taking priority over new music \u2013 they\u2019re still trying.<\/p>\n

Find a playlist of all of our recent Songs You Need to Know selections on Spotify.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Long ago, during a brief \u201cecstasy phase,\u201d Eddie Vedder tried to write some techno music. \u201cI was listening to all this stuff on ecstasy,\u201d he told me in 2006, during an all-night chat in a Cleveland, Ohio hotel room. \u201cBut I was wondering, \u2018Are they writing it on ecstasy?\u2019 I decided that the pure way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-25 01:51:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}