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Pearl Jam’s Lightning Bolt

Pearl Jam’s Lightning Bolt

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Rob Archer
Oct 19, 2013
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Pearl Jam is back with a new album this week, Lightning Bolt, and it's in the same vein as 2009's Backspacer, and that means shorter, punchier songs that invite repeated listening and stick in your brain longer. The band is doing nothing but getting straight to the point on each track, and that's a very good thing.

"Mind Your Manners," the lead single, b…

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