“This band works like a ouija board. No one’s fully in charge of how it operates, but you keep looking at the letters and seeing what they spell”: How Pearl Jam made Lightning Bolt and embraced their inner Pink Floyd

Pearl Jam posing for a photograph in 2013.

Pearl Jam are grunge’s great survivors, the only band from the early 90s Seattle scene to maintain an unbroken career. In 2013, they released their 10th album, Lightning Bolt – a record which, as guitarists Mike McCready and Stone Gossard said at the time, found them easing into a new phase of their career and lives.

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