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Backspacer (Pearl Jam album)

Backspacer
A series of nine line drawings featuring a flaming train, a cross-section of a male human body, a stage magician, a woman diving in a synchronized swimming costume, a brain in a vat, a drummer in outer space, a man standing in front of a robot and UFOs, a man riding a tricycle beneath the legs of giant women, and a woman melting into a sea of purple fluid.
Studio album by Pearl Jam
Released September 20, 2009 (2009-09-20)
Recorded February 16 – April 30, 2009
Studio Henson Recording Studios, Hollywood, California, United States and Southern Tracks Recording and Doppler, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Genre Alternative rock, hard rock, folk rock,new wave
Length 36:38
Label Monkeywrench
Producer Brendan O'Brien
Pearl Jam chronology
Pearl Jam
(2006)Pearl Jam2006 		Backspacer
(2009)		 Live on Ten Legs
(2011)Live on Ten Legs2011
Singles from Backspacer
  1. "The Fixer"
    Released: August 24, 2009
  2. "Got Some"/"Just Breathe"
    Released: October 31, 2009
  3. "Amongst the Waves"
    Released: May 17, 2010
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 79/100
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4.5/5 stars
Entertainment Weekly B
The Guardian 4/5 stars
The Harvard Crimson 4.5/5 stars
Los Angeles Times 4/4 stars
The New York Times mixed
Pitchfork 4.6/10
Q 4/5 stars
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars
Spin 8/10
Time favorable

Backspacer is the ninth studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released on September 20, 2009. The bandmembers started writing instrumental and demo tracks in 2007, and got together in 2008 to work on an album. It was recorded from February through April 2009 with producer Brendan O'Brien, who had worked on every Pearl Jam album except their 1991 debut Ten and 2006's self-titled record—although this was his first production credit since 1998's Yield. Material was recorded in Henson Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California and O'Brien's own Southern Tracks Recording in Atlanta, Georgia. The music on the album—the shortest of the band's career—features a sound influenced by pop and new wave. The lyrics have a more optimistic look than the ones in the politic-infused predecessors Riot Act and Pearl Jam, something frontman Eddie Vedder attributed to the election of Barack Obama.

The band released the album through their own label Monkeywrench Records with worldwide distribution by Universal Music Group via a licensing agreement with Island Records. Physical copies of the record were sold through Target in North America, and promotion included a deal with Verizon, a world tour, and moderately successful singles "The Fixer" and "Got Some"/"Just Breathe". Reviews for Backspacer were positive, praising the sound and composition, and the album became Pearl Jam's first chart topper at the United States' Billboard 200 since 1996's No Code, while also topping the charts in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.


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