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Earthling (2022)

Where the lyrics of Earthling take you, and where it was really made.

Vedder's third solo album was recorded in a Beverly Hills studio and mixed in a different studio, according to its release credits.

Key places

Recorded at Gold Tooth Music Studio (2022)

Recording site The Red Lips Room (Beverly Hills) — Earthling was recorded at Gold Tooth Music Studio in Beverly Hills, California. The pin marks the city center, not the studio building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Earthling is the third solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Eddie Vedder
• Released 11 February 2022 by Republic Records and Seattle Surf
• Credited production by Andrew Watt, mastering by Randy Merrill, mixing by Serban Ghenea
• Recording, mixing and mastering took place at separate studios, as the credits list
• Issued on two labels, Republic Records and the Seattle-based Seattle Surf

Background

• The release brings Vedder's solo studio output to a third album
• Credits list Alyssa Park as concertmaster
• Engineers credited include John Burton, Bryce Bordone, Marco Sonzini and Paul LaMalfa
• Steve Churchyard and Scott Moore worked on some tracks, numbers 7 and 12
• Bettie Ross and Suzie Katayama coordinated production on the same two tracks

Recording

• Recorded at Gold Tooth Music Studio in Beverly Hills, California
• Also recorded at Jump Site Studios
• Mixed at MixStar Studios
• Mastered at Sterling Sound
• Bryce Bordone handled mix engineering on several tracks, and Marco Sonzini did engineering on most of the album

Cover

• Photography by Danny Clinch
• Layout design and typeface by Eddie Vedder and Joe Spix

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · it.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Born Edward Louis Severson III on December 23, 1964, in Evanston, Illinois; raised in San Diego County, California.
• Joined San Diego-area bands in the 1980s, including Bad Radio, before moving to Seattle in 1990.
• Became lead vocalist of Pearl Jam, formed in 1990 by Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, and Mike McCready.

Members

• Lead vocalist and primary lyricist of Pearl Jam.
• Guest vocalist for Temple of the Dog, a tribute project to Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone.

Career

• Pearl Jam's debut album Ten became one of the best-selling albums of the 1990s, certified 13× Platinum.
• Vs. set a record for most copies of an album sold in a week at the time of its 1993 release.
• Released his first solo album as the soundtrack to Into the Wild (2007), which won him a 2008 Golden Globe for the song "Guaranteed".
• Released Ukulele Songs and the live DVD Water on the Road in 2011.
• Released his third solo album Earthling in 2022.
• Ranked seventh on Rolling Stone's "Best Lead Singers of All Time" reader poll.
• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 as a member of Pearl Jam.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Record Collector gave the album a glowing review in March 2022, about a month after release
• The magazine wrote that Earthling gives an uplifting sense of the creative energy shared between Eddie Vedder and his keenly empathetic collaborators
• According to the review, that energy is distilled into striking, memorable songs
• The same review says the songs are unified by a fresh, cohesive sound

Reappraisal

• Earthling received generally positive reviews from critics
• Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to critic reviews, gave the album an average score of 79
• Metacritic reads that score as generally favorable reviews
• The score is based on 15 reviews
• Critical response to the album is therefore broadly positive across these outlets

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Picture, a track on the album, features Elton John
• All lyrics on the album are written by Eddie Vedder
• The release came as a 6-panel digisleeve with no booklet

Sources: it.wikipedia.org · fr.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

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