In light of the news that Pearl Jam will be self-releasing their next album (due out this year), I decided to pop in what I consider to be the most stripped down Pearl Jam album (not including the acoustic wonder of Eddie Vedder’s Into the Wild soundtrack).
Riot Act, if nothing else, proved that Pearl Jam hit that point where they no longer cared about whether or not radio played their music or if one album directly led musically to the next. Riot Act was an album that Pearl Jam wanted to make, fame be damned. Riot Act is still a rock album, but like its title suggests, the message Eddie Vedder & co. give here is along the lines of “Chill the fuck out”. With this album containing the first new music after the Roskilde tragedy (didn’t know that before writing this…and yes, I do research for these posts), that same urging to keep calm takes on a new meaning; Vedder himself said “I Am Mine” was a message to himself right before the band’s first concert after Roskilde.
The band’s different sound (not really fair to call it a ‘new’ sound, since by their next album it was back to straight rock) here hits for the most part, but for the most part isn’t their best work. “Can’t Keep” opens the album with some impressive, bare-bones drums, and “Save You” is the closest PJ comes to their traditional sound. Meanwhile, “Love Boat Captain” might be the single greatest song Eddie Vedder has ever written. But nothing here has the charisma of the band’s earlier work. Riot Act was a fasinating and rewarding experience for the band and its fans, but its certainly nowhere near the incendiary atom bomb that was Ten.
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