Into The Wild
- Eddie Vedder
- Band Name: Eddie Vedder
- Record Label: J-Records
- Release Date: Sep 18, 2007
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85In truth, Into The Wild doesn't sound like a first solo album. It radiates a confidence and maturity that Pearl Jam have lacked on their recent albums.
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80Vedder effectively conjures the endless possibilities of the open road with sparse, never morose, tracks.
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Working with producer Adam Kasper, Vedder played nearly everything on the album. And that gives Into the Wild a cozy, intimate feel.
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Though the album is flawed (some tracks on the 33-minute disc are so brief that they never leave the ground), there is still something here that's compelling enough to stand alone, even without its real-life inspiration.
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Vedder, free from the noise (and outrage) of his day job, disappears into the sublime beauty of the simple, banjo-plucked 'No Ceiling.'
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70Vedder's incantatory vocals and campfire instrumentation evoke the eerie beauty of untouched lands. [Nov 2007, p.126]
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70The brevity of this soundtrack makes for an overall calming effects with a few great moments.
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70Satisfyingly, Into the Wild is filled with the hallmarks of such solo detours: sparse, moody crooning, more rising and falling than he allows in Pearl Jam and a surprising amount of ukulele.
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60Lyrically, he may occassionally jar but it's hard not to be uplifted when he lets rip on the opener 'Setting Forth' or when he and Sleather-Kinney's Corin Tucker chime on 'Hard Sun.' [Dec 2007, p.100]
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60The lyrics to these songs are themselves sketchy, enigmatic, quietly rousing, windily romantic, redolent of majestic vistas, vast horizons, a landscape of personal liberation.
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60It's the sound of a 24-year-old accepting death, as imagined by a lifelong misfit aging gracefully. [Nov 2007, p.158
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60'Society' suggests therr's always been a hippy survivialist under the grunge plaid. [Dec 2007, p.124]
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It's accomplished but occasionally overbearingly earnest and calls to mind the Foos' acoustic alter-ego, bolstered by Sufjan Stevens-ish banjo plucks and, in 'Hard Sun', the kind of play-it-again chorus made for credits rolling over a stunning landscape.
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These songs all feel like a score, and that's not necessarily a good thing. They all seem to be of a piece, but musically there isn't enough imagination to distinguish them, to set the tension of dynamic in motion.
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TeriW10
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ArasB10Great song....society is a phenomenal song.
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fG.0Sucks balls.