Pearl Jam [Digipak]

Rolling Stone (p.55) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]s big and brash in fuzz and backbone as Led Zeppelin's PRESENCE....The politics on PEARL JAM are not those or left but of engagement and responsibility." Rolling Stone (p.103) - Ranked #13 in Rolling Stone's "The Top 50 Albums Of 2006" -- "These are songs about universal accountability and the still-revolutionary power of individual dissent." Entertainment Weekly (p.136) - "[T]hey stand and deliver on this belatedly eponymous barnstormer, the seriously hopped-up effort fans have been pining for since VITALOGY." -- Grade: B+ Kerrang (Magazine) (pp.46-47) - "Gossard and McCready's molten guitars mesh electrifyingly for an opening brace of rockers shot-through with air-punch hooks and Eddie Vedder's valiant howling-into-a-hurricane croon..." Mojo (Publisher) (p.112) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[S]elf-titled with good reason: Pearl Jam sound reborn, vital. The first three tracks are full-tilt rockers..."

完全復活!　デビュー以来常に最前線で闘い続けてきたパール・ジャムだが、それでもこの作品に対しては〈復活〉という言葉が相応しいように思う。爆音で突っ走る冒頭の3曲をはじめ、『Ten』や『Vs』の頃の衝動を取り戻したかのような勢いに満ちた楽曲が並ぶ。メンバー自身が〈最高傑作〉と言い放ち、初めてセルフ・タイトルを冠したのにも頷ける。デビュー16年目の〈ファースト・アルバム〉──ここから彼らの新章が始まる。　　
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