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A seething, furious album; a declamatory statement against cynicism and passivity and the simple injustices of everyday life.
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A formless collection that drifts from one tune to the next, weighed down by a general sense of murk that pervades everything from Tchad Blake's production to the song arrangements and the lyrics.
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The band's most consistent, well-written effort yet.
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The songs are sharper, the production is layered, and the performances are as compassionate as ever, resulting in their finest album since Vitalogy.
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In the main they have done away with their more stodgy, pretentious material and distilled their sound into a stripped down rawness, and they sound all the better for it.
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A warts-and-all album; it has grabbers, songs that sink in slowly and a few absolute duds?
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If there's an ounce of you that's ever been keen on Pearl Jam, or even if you've never bothered, grab a pair of headphones and let Binaural pummel and soak into you, and relax about it.
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Pearl Jam returns to peak form with a 13-song collection of driving power rock reminiscent of the band's glory days of the early to mid-1990s.
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Oddly, it's the faster songs -- once Pearl Jam's forte -- that detract from Binaural as a whole.
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Probably the last good album we can realistically expect from Pearl Jam.
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MagnetNear-brilliant... smoldering slabs of sonic complexity... [#46, p.86]
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 54 out of 60
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Mixed: 4 out of 60
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Negative: 2 out of 60
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Jun 6, 2011
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gazcAug 23, 2009
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JackVMar 16, 2005pearl jam have never made an album short of brilliant. it is not in their forte to make bad music.