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Remastered Reissue On Double LP!
Newly Remastered From The Original Sources by Bob Ludwig!
Riot Act is the seventh studio album by rock band Pearl Jam, released on
November 12, 2002 through Epic Records. Following a full-scale tour in support
of its previous album, Binaural (2000), Pearl Jam took a year-long break. The
band then reconvened in the beginning of 2002 and commenced work on a new album.
The music on the record featured a diverse sound, including songs influenced by
folk, art rock, and experimental rock. The lyrics deal with mortality and
existentialism, with much influence from both the political climate after the
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the accidental death of nine fans
during Pearl Jam's performance at the 2000 Roskilde Festival.
The band supported the album with a politically charged concert tour in 2003.
Riot Act was the band's last album of all-new material for Epic. The album
received mostly positive reviews, and has been certified gold by the RIAA in the
United States.
"In some ways, Riot Act is the album that Pearl Jam has been wanting to make
since Vitalogy -- a muscular art rock record, one that still hits hard but that
is filled with ragged edges and odd detours... Given the appealing but haphazard
nature of their late-'90s work, it's quite satisfying to have a Pearl Jam album
play as strongly as Riot Act, and again some credit must be given to drummer
Matt Cameron. He enlivened 2000's Binaural, but his forceful drumming gives the
weirder songs and ambitions support and urgency. Also, the production is the
best in nearly a decade -- a warm, burnished sound filled with details that
enhance the basic song instead of overwhelming them (in other words, it's not No
Code, nor is it the Spartan Yield). Again, these are subtle shifts in sound, but
they are notable and, given several plays, this does indeed seem like the
richest record Pearl Jam has made in a long time." - Stephen Thomas
Erlewine, allmusic.com
Features:
• Double LP
• Newly remastered from the original sources by Bob Ludwig
• Gatefold jacket
Selections:
1. Can't Keep
2. Save You
3. Love Boat Captain
4. Cropduster
5. Ghost
6. I Am Mine
7. Thumbing My Way
8. You Are
9. Get Right
10. Green Disease
11. Help Help
12. Bu$hleaguer
13. 1/2 Full
14. Arc
15. All Or None