Dark Matter by Pearl Jam

Dark Matter, Pearl Jam's twelfth studio album, came out on April 19, 2024 through Monkeywrench and Republic, with Andrew Watt producing. After the piecemeal, years-long sessions behind Gigaton, this time Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Jeff Ament and Matt Cameron piled into Shangri-La in Malibu and Watt's home studio and played it together, fast and loud, as a five-piece.

You can hear it. The riffs come out swinging, McCready's leads burn hot, and Vedder sounds hungrier than he has in years. The title track and "Wreckage" were among the singles, along with "Running". It's also the first Pearl Jam record with contributions from Josh Klinghoffer, who had joined them on the road for the Gigaton Tour, and it turned out to be Cameron's last before he left the band in July 2025. Critics loved it, and it picked up Grammy nominations for Best Rock Album and, for "Dark Matter", Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance.

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