Pearl Jam Begin Work on Ninth Studio Album

by Jarrett Martineau | May 2, 2008 at 12:43 pm

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Pearl Jam at the Astoria... and the madness that surrounds!

Eddie Vedder and the PJ boys are, miraculously, still going strong and continue rocking along.

Just thinking ahead here, they're going to have to come up with a creative name for their next album (their 10th) — given that "Ten" was their major label debut all the way back in grungey 1991.

Pearl Jam have begun work on early demos for their ninth studio album — which will be their first with producer Brendan O’Brien since 1998’s Yield, according to guitarist Mike McCready. “It’s really in its infant stages right now,” McCready tells Rolling Stone. “We have about five ideas that have been worked on.” The band, whose last album was 2006’s well-received Pearl Jam, isn’t sure yet about the direction of the new release. “Brendan is another set of ears that we respect, and he’s going to give us a different way to go but I don’t know what that is yet,” McCready says. The band has already had one session with O’Brien, and will probably resume work on the album in July after finishing their June U.S. tour.