“It is 29 years since the release of Pearl Jam’s 16m-selling debut album Ten. On one level: of course it is. Is there anything more piquantly redolent of the distant moment when grunge went from being a witty melding of US punk, old-fashioned British indie and an unabashed love of 1970s hard rock to a vast, mainstream concern than the videos for its singles Jeremy and Alive? These were expensively ”
“Pearl Jam mark their return with the solid and experimental Gigaton”
“The band’s first album in seven years is an admirable, inspiring example of grown-up grunge”
“It's the rare late-career Pearl Jam album that actually summons some real urgency”
“Eleven albums in, a band that has become an industry unto itself attempts an artistic rejuvenation that still seems out of reach.”
“one of the biggest rock bands in the world return to semi-brilliance”
