True....This is all speculative. But there are some hints or rumours....
It's all in the eye of the beholder I guess..

There you go. I'm back on the "this isn't happening" bus.

Oddly enough, when the album arrived in the post I was looking at the symbol on the spine and thinking it was peculiar that it was just part of it, and not the whole...

A companion album would be sweet. But as has been mentioned previously, King of Limbs had the same rumours - and that came to nothing. (FWIW KoL definitely needed a companion more than Gigaton... it still seems a weirdly throwaway album for a band as fastidious as Radiohead).

At the same time... Pearl Jam have been banging away at it for a long time and must surely have stacks of songs in the locker. Only ONE Gossard track on this album after all this time seems a little curious. And no Of The Earth??? Thematically it just seems such a good fit for Gigaton that it's weird it didn't make the cut... so maybe it's cos it'll be on Gigaton II: Electric Boogaloo?!

Gigaton 2 sounds weird..

2 Gigaton makes more sense...

Josh Evans said they only mixed the songs for the album.

Mike also said a month or so before the announcement that they were just getting to recording stuff so misinformation is in the Pearl Jam dna. I would like to believe there’s a companion piece because we have waited so long for this one and the quality and effort put into this is readily apparent - if they another in the can of the same level of effort I am more than all for it. I am not sure I believe it but hey you never know.

They are all lying through their teeth all the time. Believe nothing they say.

Gigaone
Gigatwo

it’s true they love pretending like things that actually exist don’t exist case and point: Boom, Can’t Deny Me, Beth, Dave A

Gigaton
Gigatoo

I'm watching this right now

I'm not fully invested in the idea that something else is coming but I still think the combination of the "side a" designator on the CD combined with only half of the "lungs" logo (as demonstrated on one of the band's new shirts below) being printed on the spine is very curious.

Either of those things separately I could probably dismiss as being nothing, but both together is pretty interesting.



(Even) wild(er) speculation, but I doubt it would be "Gigaton Part II", if anything were to come of it, more likely a collection of the outtakes from the last few records, perhaps including the leftovers from the Brendan sessions. It would be a great clearing house for tracks like Let It Ride, Of the Earth, etc.

That's exactly what I said too. If it exists, it's possibly Side B (i.e. B SIDES). I'd be super happy with that.

Something covering the last 15 years or so of stuff we haven't got in proper unleaked form. Let it Ride, Of the Earth, etc. Fucking ace

It’s interesting that the band is selling a heart and broken heart t-shirts but there is no heart or broken heart logos in the album art that I can find. Only the flame and lungs (and half a lung in the spine).

Radiohead did put out two songs from the sessions afterward, plus a couple of songs started during said sessions which weren't completed in time, right?
That's an additional eighteen or so minutes tacked onto a thirty-seven minute record.

I'd have no problem at all with PJ doing this, but, I'm still waiting for that Backspacer EP, so...yeah

i thought this was supposed to be whales?

i am so confused

<throws single-use plastic water bottle in garbage>

To echo my fellow down under brothers, this could be a Mirrorball/Merkinball companion single/EP/LP.

Well, they still owe us two fanclubsingles. What if they want to end the series with a bang and give us an LP of Gigaton B-sides instead.....
Yup...you heard it here first folks...