![]() ![]() All of the musical spontaneity may well alienate some, but its eclecticism is its greatest asset. In case you haven’t got the gist by now: there’s simply no way of knowing where Earthling is going next – be it in sound or mood – at any given time. Both, it should be stressed, come directly after the hushed elegance of The Haves. Rose Of Jericho pairs a choppy riff with references to Henry David Thoreau while Good And Evil ends with a blast of fuzz that will rattle your speakers. If this all sounds very pleasant, such instances are counterbalanced with serrated rock. Excellent lead single The Long Way, for one, summons the late, great Tom Petty, and even enlists Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench. Indeed, this is a record that plays like Eddie’s soul is plugged directly into a jukebox skipping through different eras of music history. “The special guests come out at the end,” he told the New York Times of how he deployed Elton John, Ringo Starr and Stevie Wonder on an album that also features Red Hot Chili Peppers alumni Josh Klinghoffer and Chad Smith, not to mention his daughters Olivia and Harper on backing vocals. Welcome aboard Air Vedder, people.Īhead of its release, Eddie spoke of constructing Earthling’s tracklist like a concert. It’s all a grand precursor to one of the most uplifting rock songs in recent memory. ‘ Are we clear? Cleared for liftoff… Are we affirmative… No negatory!’ he says like an overly-eager pilot before the drums crash in. As opener Invincible rises from a bed of keyboards, we hear him not singing, but rather talking. It takes all of about 10 seconds of listening to his latest brilliant extracurricular outing, Earthling, to realise he’s very much ’Ed-ing in a different direction here. To date, the Pearl Jam legend’s two solo excursions have been exercises in quietude, the first being the searching beauty of 2007’s Into The Wild soundtrack, the other the tranquilised beach-core of 2011’s Ukulele Songs. Watch the full video from the performance below.You probably think you know precisely what Eddie Vedder’s new album is going to sound like. "I would never judge what he was going through because it must've been the worst thing a human could ever go through." I wish he would've known that I was on the other side ever-so-close just days away," he continued. "Jeremy, in particular, I would never put him in a similar category, and I would never try to question - I wouldn't dare to question - his motives, because after something as horrific as that happened to you. He responded to the friend's text that "Brother the Cloud" was written about a few people he lost "in ways that we wish could've been avoided" "The friend that texted me today, he said, 'It sounds like you're talking about Jeremy in that song,'" the vocalist said. In March of 2019, Richman was found dead due to an apparent suicide. We talked in November and he was gonna come visit in January or maybe early February," Vedder recalled. We became really close, I reckon, over about three years. "He tried to be positive about it, he'd go around and speak and do some seminars and conferences, etc. This friend in question was a man named Jeremy Richman, and he'd started a non-profit organization called The Avielle Foundation after she was one of the 26 victims that were killed during the shooting at Sandy Hook in 2012. The foundation's mission is to prevent violence through brain health research. Her name was Avielle," the singer explained. I met three of them once, and the one that I kind of immediately got closest to, he worked in neuroscience, had a great wife and a great daughter. actually, I met him because they were both dads - they were both Sandy Hook dads. "I got a text today from a friend, whom we had a friend in common. However, it's not about his friend, who tragically died in November of 2019, and the singer told the audience his story. ![]() 6), Vedder confirmed that the song was written about a couple of people that he's lost. ![]()
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