The album poetically follows a more aggressive and darker themed background than Backspacer , but at the same time gives continuation to the last album, despite cannot be considered a Backspacer 2. Lightning Bolt addresses critics on religion and humanity, heavy punk influenced songs, love, existential and nature songs that are really connected with the last album, but always with the shadow of death behind the frailty of the ephemerous life.
After four years from Backspacer , Pearl Jam finally released a new album, even starting a countdown on their official site. Violinist Ann Marie Calhoun is responsible for string arrangements. Lightning Bolt emerges as another masterpiece from the band, more agressive than the previous one, but evolves to a more romantic and existential themed album as it reaches its end.
Starting with two religious critic songs, Getaway and Mind Your Manners , they are followed by My Father's Son , another song that plays on the relation of father and son, something very special on Eddie 's life. Sirens comes as a pure strong love song, long forgotten on the bands compositions and probally one of the strongest, followed by the song that gives the name to the album.
Connected to Lightning Bolt , Infallible comes as the sole critic on human selfishness and our talent to let big things go for believing nothing can beat us. At this point, the album becomes more existential, addressing songs about life and its movement Pendulum , connection with the world Swallowed Whole , and after a break of Let The Records Play , it presents a version of Sleeping By Myself from Eddie's Ukulele Songs.
Ending the album, two very existential and calm songs, Yellow Moon and Future Days , closing Lightning Bolt as a deep, existential but also agressive and critic album, always a Pearl Jam identity.
According to Stone here , there " was some sort of uncouncious effort to not create Backspacer 2". This explain the dark themed, sometimes hidden, content of Lightning Bolt, as an exemple of this, death is directly mentioned in 8 of 12 songs.
And then before you know the weeds are Obesely overgrown with all the Wild seed she sows in your sleep. Always something and never nothing Isn't that the way we're taught to be? Flipping through the worn out pages And stages when you knew not who to be Til the lightning strike sets you free. The crashing stormy waves erode her Shoreline everyday until the Castle of her ways turn to sand.
She holds her lovely breast As her birds fall from the nest Flying towards the great northwest, yeh yeh yeh. And with no repair in sight There is no God with such might As to open her world wide with subterfuge.
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