Vedder: “Taylor Swift fans remember punk rock audiences”

Pearl Jam, as we told you, are back, and with a bang. In recent weeks, “Dark matter” was released, the first single and title track of their new album, the twelfth of their career, produced by Andrew Watt. The title of the new project will be the same as the single: “Dark matter” will be released on April 19th and will contain 11 songs. “An album that will be heavier than you think”, this is what guitarist Mike McCready declared some time ago. Meanwhile, the voice of the group Eddie Vedder was interviewed by Mojo and told a funny anecdote: he explains that he brought one of his daughters to a Taylor Swift concert. “There were these friendship bracelets, exchanging these bracelets with different messages engraved on them, be it lyrics or song titles, it had formed like a tribe: they all agreed on something.”

He continues: “The craziest thing is that it reminded me of the punk rock crowds, of being aligned with everyone in our city, in those days. It was galvanizing and powerful…”. The weeks that led to the announcement of Pearl Jam's new album were intense and also a little confusing: last January 31st the group presented the album in front of a selected audience at the Troubadour in Los Angeles, even though the meeting was in behind closed doors something has (inevitably) leaked out, with rumors and fragments circulated by fans, probably a marketing strategy to create hype. Since that day, the anticipation among fans has become increasingly frantic.