Pearl Jam confirm they are working on a new album

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22 Mar 2022, 10:24

Pearl Jam have teamed up with Justin Bieber's producer to work on a new record.

It will be the follow up to 2020's 'Gigaton' album, and the band have already recorded several tracks.

Stone Gossard said: 'We’ve recorded some songs. We’re on our way. We’re making music,” he told Consequence Of Sound.

The band have teamed up with Andrew Watt, who previously worked with Justin Bieber and also worked on frontman Eddie Vedder‘s album ‘Earthling’.

Gossard continued: “We’re psyched. Andrew is a total character. Really, like immediately, we were writing quickly. Spontaneously. Bring in a riff. Let’s knock it out. [Drummer] Matt Cameron is playing his ass off.

He added: "We didn’t bring any gear down. We were just doing some recording in Andrew’s basement in Beverly Hills, basically. So far, so good.”

“I want to keep staying in that state of mind where we make looser records, and are quicker in terms of being able to generate that feeling or art… Pearl Jam, we constantly are asking: What is another process? How is it that we can do something new? What’s the next step?” Gossard continued.

“Just speaking with [bassist] Jeff [Ament] the other day, we’re talking about trying different formations of how to generate song ideas, particularly ones that move us, that move us in a cool direction, or in a direction that makes people go, ‘Ah!’”

Vedder previously told Mojo that he wanted to work with Watt again: “We’ll make a record with Andrew, I believe. We’ve already talked about it. You know, the pandemic came right as we were leaving for a tour on the ‘Gigaton’ record.

"We had a lot of shows planned. Two-thirds of those shows were put on sale, even. So one thing we’ll be doing in 2022 is making good on promises to play those shows.”

Fans are looking forward to seeing Pearl Jam play at Hyde Park later this year.