Lead single 'The Fixer' sees Eddie Vedder in fine voice, stripping back the
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Created: 09/08/11
The first Pearl Jam album to be produced by Brendan O'Brien since 'Yield' back in 1998, 'Backspacer' strips Pearl Jam to the basics. Well, this album runs for thirty-four minutes, contains only two songs that exceed four minutes and features up-tempo numbers in abundance. The quicker numbers have titles like 'Got Some' or 'Supersonic' and you may worry Pearl Jam are just doing simple stuff at the expense of their more artistic side. We do get a brilliant mid-section to the album though with slower, more considered tunes - 'Just Breathe' and 'Amongst The Waves', two truly excellent Pearl Jam songs good enough to rank alongside anything else they've done. Some nineteen years into a recording career, that's not to be sniffed at. Well, Pitchfork gave the album 4.6 out of 10 and claimed that Pearl Jam hadn't been commercially relevant for over a decade. Pitchfork have it wrong in this particular case, both artistically and commercially. Commercially 'Backspacer' is doing just fine, having sold close to 500,000 copies in the USA alone at the time of writing - it debuted at number one on Billboard and you can't get any higher than that. The review aggregator site metacritic provides a wide selection of mostly positive reviews, so critically Pearl Jam aren't doing so badly here, either.

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Created: 10/09/10
received it in Excellent Condition, will buy from this site again. one of Pearl Jam best album ever written, a must to hear the lyrics of the song " Just Breath"

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