Pearl Jam - Dark Matter

Dark Matter is the twelfth studio album by American grunge rock band Pearl Jam, released in April 2024 via Republic and Monkeywrench Records.

Dark Matter was recorded over three weeks in 2023 at Shangri-La in Malibu, California and, according to a press release, "channels the shared spirit of a group of lifelong creative confidants and brothers in one room playing as if their very lives depended on it".

The album was produced with Andrew Watt and the band together with Watt debuted the songs in front of fans at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, California.

According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Dark Matter received "universal acclaim" based on a weighted average score of 81 out of 100 from 17 critic scores. Ultimate Classic Rock said "With cutting lyrics and slicing riffs, Eddie Vedder and the band delivered their most satisfying album since the '90s." Uncut magazine called it "a fretful and ferocious record, lyrically much preoccupied with things having ended or appearing about to end, but musically much more blaze of glory than any kind of funeral pyre".

This double album 2LP record set is an indie record stores limited edition on red, white and blue tri-colour coloured vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve with printed booklet, pressed in Europe via Republic and Monkeywrench Records.