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Article: Step back helps renew Pearl Jam Experimental, publicity-shy path helps lead to rock group's new `Yield' album
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 11, 1998
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After Pearl Jam's mega-platinum early success and its enshrinement
as a cultural icon, the band has worked hard to step back from the
limelight. The group has followed an experimental muse on its
records and generally eschewed the press, videos, and (after the
quixotic bout with Ticketmaster) large-scale touring.
The biggest result of this path has been that Pearl Jam's sales
numbers have fallen with each new album, from 8 million copies for
1992's "Ten" to 1.3 million for last year's "No Code," according to
SoundScan. But the low-key ethos was partially borne out of
necessity, according to the band.
Without such an approach, Pearl Jam's striking new Epic album,