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Thanks for sharing. Although Kerrang gave Gigaton the same rating, I do think that the 4 star reviews were selling this album short. It's better than that. I'd give it 4.5/5 myself. It's a top-tier album with mostly great songs. I'm liking it better than Gigaton at this time and I really think they have given us some all-timers in this one. There's perhaps nothing as left field as DOTC (React, Respond may come close), but the best songs really do hit it out of the park.
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These parts from the Kerrang review really resonated with me:
Perhaps best understood as a collection of songs detailing innocence lost and wisdom gained, Dark Matter moves deftly between moods, whether chewing on indignant rage on the title-track (not to mention Matt Cameron drumming his arms off), to calling for reconciliation on Got To Give. The range of subjects is staggering. Waiting For Stevie tells the story of a young woman finding refuge in live music over a bright, slinking guitar line while Won’t Tell… Well, that one will keep you busy wringing your interpretation from its spectral lyrics.
Dark Matter is many things. It’s thrilling. It’s moving. It’s surprising. It’s a band still operating at the peaks of their powers. ‘Let us not fade,’ repeats Eddie at the end of elegiac closer Setting Sun. There seems little risk of that. Pearl Jam said it took three weeks to record Dark Matter. In truth, it’s the kind of record that takes a lifetime to make.
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It would be an unfeeling soul indeed not to be moved by the sound of a man who started his career mourning the father he never really knew singing, now, as the dad who has given everything.
It would be an unfeeling soul indeed not to be moved by the sound of a man who started his career mourning the father he never really knew singing, now, as the dad who has given everything.
That's a pretty insightful take. Interestingly, I'm sure stip said the same, pretty much word for word, at some point within the past few days.
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In the past, I’ve expressed mixed feelings about Watt. His fan-boyish methodology — such as wearing a different band T-shirt corresponding with the group he’s currently working with each day in the studio — verges on corny. (“We ignored that,” Vedder later said of Watt’s sartorial-oriented cheerleading.)
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