Lightning Bolt
by Pearl Jam
User Score
7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 115 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 92 out of 115
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 115
  3. Negative: 5 out of 115
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  1. bicyclejoe
    Oct 15, 2013
    1
    Once a great rock band, Pearl Jam has settled into a pattern of retreaded guitar riffs, middling songwriting and FM soft rock theatrics. There's really no reason to revisit this album; it's simply an expression of a band merely existing to pay the bills and to relive the glory days. But we'll always have the live shows and "Vitalogy."
  2. jimmypowder
    Oct 17, 2013
    2
    Not even close to some of Pearl Jam's best work

    A really lazy effort .Ten,Vs.,Vitalogy and even latter works like Riot Act are better then this album

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#48 Most Discussed Album of 2013

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Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 33 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 33
  3. Negative: 0 out of 33
  1. Blurt Magazine
    Dec 19, 2013
    40
    The problem is that Pearl Jam at this point is just repeating itself--or others.
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  2. Magnet
    Dec 18, 2013
    60
    Lightning Bolt is only more competent than Foo Fighters, Vedder and Co.'s rival for the planet's straightest rock band. [No. 105, p.57]
  3. Under The Radar
    Dec 4, 2013
    75
    Lightning Bolt finds Pearl Jam sounding more comfortable in its collective skin and with its collective influences than perhaps even before. [Nov-Dec 2013, p.92]
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