Pearl Jam - GigatonPearl Jam will release their much anticipated eleventh studio album, Gigaton. Produced by Josh Evans and Pearl Jam, Gigaton marks the bands first studio album since GRAMMY award winning Lightning Bolt, which was released on October 15, 2013. Making this record was a long journey, explains Mike McCready. It was emotionally dark and confusing at times, but also an exciting and experimental road map to musical redemption. Collaborating with my bandmates

An exquisite version of "El GavilÌÁn" is performed by Eddie Palmieri on piano with an outstanding brass section that would years later identify the Fania All Stars' sound

 Perhaps the number of botanical gardens and palm houses in Germany confused musicians into mistaking the climate

Neither of these was featured in the vinyl package

In their fourth decade as a band familiarity has come to mean a more careful treatment of each song

all rounded off by the epic traditional song

‰ÛÏIt is about throwing away your default responses to life

bright and unhurried seasons

Pop-Makossa shines a light on a glorious but largely overlooked period in the story of Cameroonian makossa

Vinyl transfer approval overseen by Mick Harvey during Summer 2014 and cut at Abbey Road studios

at Blanck Mass’ studio outside of Edinburgh

more abstract

the band‰۪s few recordings ‰ÛÒ which were on DAT tape