Pearl Jam‘s iconic sophomore Epic album Vs. turned 30 on Oct. 12, and in celebration, the group is reissuing the album in new vinyl and cassette editions on Nov. 17. Vs. can even be obtainable tomorrow (Oct. 20) in a brand new Atmos Spatial Audio Combine by way of Apple Music, in tandem with new visualizer movies for each music.
Pearl Jam’s Ten Membership fan group will provide Vs. as an unique two-LP “dreamsicle” in translucent orange vinyl with white swirls, in addition to a transparent cassette. Goal is promoting the album in an unique clear vinyl version, with a separate clear vinyl obtainable for worldwide clients. In the meantime, a black two-LP vinyl can be offered at as-yet-unspecified retailers. For extra info, click here.
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Produced by Brendan O’Brien and recorded on the Website in Nicasio, Ca., Vs. was already the topic of a 2011 boxed set in tandem with its 1994 predecessor, Vitalogy, which featured a number of never-before-heard session outtakes and a beforehand unreleased live performance from Boston Backyard on April 12, 1994, simply says after Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain dedicated suicide.
Throughout its first week of launch, Vs. offered 950,378 copies, essentially the most of any album since Nielsen SoundScan started monitoring point-of-sales information in 1991. The report stood for 5 years till Garth Brooks shifted greater than 1 million models of Double Dwell in November 1998. Vs. contains a number of of the band’s most enduring songs, equivalent to “Daughter,” “Aged Girl Behind the Counter in a Small City,” and “Rearviewmirror,” and was carried out in its entirety as a one-off in April 2016 in Greenville, S.C.
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As beforehand reported, Pearl Jam will launch its twelfth studio album sooner or later in 2024. It was produced by Andrew Watt, who additionally labored with frontman Eddie Vedder on his 2022 solo album Earthling and is a member of his solo band.
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