Into The Wild - Eddie Vedder
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Metascore

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 78 Ratings

  • Summary: Pearl Jam's lead singer goes solo with music based on his works for the film of the same name.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 14
  2. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. In 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.
  2. Working with producer Adam Kasper, Vedder played nearly everything on the album. And that gives Into the Wild a cozy, intimate feel.
  3. Vedder effectively conjures the endless possibilities of the open road with sparse, never morose, tracks.
  4. 60
    Lyrically, 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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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 41 out of 47
  2. Negative: 3 out of 47
  1. ArasB
    10
    Great song....society is a phenomenal song.
  2. 8
    The last kind of record you'd expect to hear from the Pearl Jam frontman. I'm not a PJ fan at all and never really like Vedders voice but this record is brilliant. You really have to have seen the film to understand the context of the record but it goes really well with it. I don't how it would sound otherwise. Hard Sun should have gotten an Oscar nomination for best song in a film in 2008. Expand
  3. Zebrandy
    7
    Smooth and replete with emotions. My favorite song is Society. But unfortunately a little bit short album.
  4. fG.
    0
    Sucks balls.

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