In their ludicrously busy twenty-first year, Pearl Jam are already making plans for a new album.
The grunge stalwarts are not slowing down after two decades. In fact, if anything, they are ramping it up.
Let’s go through it: singer Eddie Vedder is on the verge of releasing a new solo album and plans another solo tour this year, bassist Jeff Ament has a solo album in the works (plus he’s working with side project Tres Mts.), they’re playing the monster Pearl Jam Twenty festival mid-year to celebrate the band, there’s a Cameron Crowe documentary being released, and drummer Matt Cameron is working on a new Soundgarden record.
Now Jeff Ament has told Billboard that they’re already sifting through demos for their follow-up to 2009’s Backspacer.
Ament has revealed that they have a disc of 25 demos and they’ll be stepping into the studio during April to “figure out which 12-15 of them float to the top”.
He continued, “There's been so much focus on the past that I think all of us are really excited to make a new record and have something to look forward to because we've been digging in the boxes in our basement a lot the last year or so”.
If fans can’t wait for that, there will be a deluxe box set of reissues out on March 29, featuring rare archival recordings and expanded versions of Vs and Vitalogy.
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