Pearl Jam (album)

Pearl Jam
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Studio album by Pearl Jam
Released	May 2, 2006
Recorded	November 2004 – February 2006
Studio	Studio X, Seattle, Washington
Genre	Alternative rock grunge[1] hard rock[2]
Length	49:44
Label	J
Producer	Adam Kasper Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam chronology
Riot Act (2002) Pearl Jam (2006) Backspacer (2009)
Singles from Pearl Jam
"World Wide Suicide" Released: March 14, 2006 "Life Wasted" Released: August 28, 2006 "Gone" Released: October 7, 2006

Pearl Jam is the eighth studio album by American rock band Pearl Jam, released on May 2, 2006 on J Records. It was Pearl Jam's first and only release for J Records, their last album issued by Sony Music. It was the band's first full-length studio release in almost four years, since Riot Act (2002). The band commenced work on Pearl Jam in November 2004 at Studio X in Seattle, Washington and finished in February 2006.

The music on the record was proclaimed as a return to the band's roots, with an emphasis on up-tempo songs with an aggressive sound. The song lyrics are mostly told from the point of view of characters and deal with the socio-political issues in the United States at the period, such as the War on Terror.

Pearl Jam was critically well received and a commercial success, debuting at number two on the Billboard 200 chart and eventually outselling the band's previous release, Riot Act. The album also produced three singles—"World Wide Suicide", "Life Wasted" and "Gone"—which were moderately successful. The band supported the album with a full-scale world tour in 2006. Writing for Kerrang!, George Garner called the album "criminally underrated".^[3]