Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam Pearl Jam Image  Generally favorable
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2   • 1   • 0   • 0   • Summary: Adam Kasper again co-produced
the band's belated follow-up to 2002's 'Riot Act.' It is Pearl
Jam's eighth studio album overall. Score distribution:   1.
Positive: 22 out of 28   2. Negative: 0 out of 28   1. Pearl Jam
hasn't sounded as alive or engaging as they do here since at
least Vitalogy, if not longer.   2. Pearl Jam is another
straight-up collection of raw, blistered rock and moody mid-
tempo balladry. The difference here, and the reason for
excitement, is that the self-titled record more consistently
achieves the grandeur, rage, and beauty they’ve always pursued,
throughout its entirety.   3. Unfashionable as they probably
are, Pearl Jam have gone some way to regaining both their fire
and their relevance with this, a record that ta