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\n\tFollowing the experimental music journey that was 2020\u2019s Gigaton<\/em>, Pearl Jam<\/a> returns to familiar, heavy turf on Dark Matter<\/em>, the legendary Seattle rock band\u2019s 12th studio album.<\/p>\n \n\tDropping at the stroke of midnight, Dark Matter<\/em> (via Monkeywrench Records\/Republic Records) spans 11 (mostly) burly numbers, including the previously-released midtempo cut \u201cWreckage\u201d and the title track, which powered to No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s Mainstream Rock Airplay and Rock & Alternative Airplay Charts. <\/p>\n \n\tGrammy Award-winning producer Andrew Watt is back behind the desk on Dark Matter<\/em>, built on foundations of blazing guitars and busy drumming, and which ought to be played \u201cloud, like, really loud,\u201d frontman Eddie Vedder told Alt 98.7.<\/p>\n \n\tPearl Jam was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2017, recognition of a mighty, three-decade-plus career that has yielded 12 top 10s on the Billboard 200 chart, including five leaders, and over 85 million albums shifted worldwide, according to reps.<\/p>\n \n\tThe members of Pearl Jam\u2014Vedder, Jeff Ament (bass), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar), Mike McCready (lead guitar), and Matt Cameron (drums)\u2014workshopped the album last year at Rick Rubin\u2019s Shangri-La Studios in Malibu. With Watt at the desk, the creative process found turbo-packs, and the record came together in three weeks. <\/p>\n \n\tVedder, McCready, and Ament premiered the LP at a listening party<\/a> in West Hollywood earlier this year, attended by a few hundred family, friends, industry professionals and media, the Associated Press reported at the time.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cYou all get together as a group as we\u2019ve been doing for 30-plus years and you say, \u2018Let\u2019s try it again,\u2019\u201d Vedder reportedly told guests from the stage as he introduced the record. \u201cNo hyperbole, I think this is our best work.\u201d<\/p>\n In support of the new LP, Vedder and CO. will embark on a world tour. Those Dark Matter World Tour<\/a><\/em> 2024 dates will see the band visit nine countries and 25 cities, kicking off at May 4 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, BC.<\/p>\n \n\tStream Dark Matter<\/em> in full below.<\/p>\n