"It has a riff that gives Matt Cameron the opportunity to be as great as we know him to be": Stone Gossard reveals the new Pearl Jam song that has "probably one of the greatest drum fills of all time"

Matt Cameron, Eddie Vedder and Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam performs onstage during the 2021 Ohana Music Festival on October 2, 2021 in Dana Point, California.

Interviews with Pearl Jam's members about forthcoming album Dark Matter (out on 19 April) are now surfacing and you can officially colour us excited. Stone Gossard especially sounds enthused in a way we can't ignore when speaking to Spin – and it seems producer and massive Pearl Jam fan Andrew Watt deserves a chunk of the credit.

We were comfortable because of Ed having already said, I think this is a good choice. Let’s experiment together," the guitarist says of Eddie Vedder's unexpected call to the band to come to Rick Rubin's Malibu Shangri-La studio in the summer of 2021 and see what happened. He and Watt had been working on the solo album Earthling  and felt inspired.