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Article: NEW PEARL JAM CD PEELS ANOTHER LAYER
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 1, 1998
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Pearl Jam's upcoming CD "Yield" (Epic, out Tuesday) does not
sound like a Major Statement made by an Important Band. This is
good. And "Yield," where the charms are unveiled, onionlike, with
repeated listenings, is a very good album.
It opens with a bang: a churning, squalling, guitar-stoked
rocker with Eddie Vedder singing "Who's got the brain of JFK? /
What's it mean to us now?" But that song is something of a feint.
"Yield," produced by Brendan O'Brien and the band, is the least
overtly hard-rocking or "grungiest" of the band's efforts, and
while the charter inhabitants of Pearl Jam Nation may grumble
(again), they have a lot of second- and third-generation bands
still stirring those ...