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Binaural

by Pearl Jam

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Overall Rating: 2.8638 Binaural is ranked overall as 2.8638 out of 4 stars
Avg. Critic Score: 2.7950 Binaural has an avg. critic score of 2.7950 out of 4 stars

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Dot Music
In the main they have done away with their more stodgy, pretentious material and distilled their sound into a stripped down rawness, and they sound all the better for it. ...more
Spin
If there's an ounce of you that's ever been keen on Pearl Jam, or even if you've never bothered, grab a pair of headphones and let Binaural pummel and soak into you, and relax about it. ...more
Yahoo! Music
Eddie Vedder and his four plaid clad buddies have been around for some time now. During the last ten years they have survived the fall-out of the grunge explosion and continued to release albums to an expectant fanbase. However the goalposts ...more
All Music Guide
The songs are sharper, the production is layered, and the performances are as compassionate as ever, resulting in their finest album since Vitalogy. ...more
All Music Guide
If anything, Pearl Jam was even more in the wilderness -- at least as far as the mainstream was concerned -- at the beginning of 2000 than they were in the second half of the '90s. Even with "Last Kiss," their first big hit single sinceTen, ...more

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MTV.com
Probably the last good album we can realistically expect from Pearl Jam. ...more
Billboard
Pearl Jam returns to peak form with a 13-song collection of driving power rock reminiscent of the band's glory days of the early to mid-1990s. ...more
Rolling Stone
A warts-and-all album; it has grabbers, songs that sink in slowly and a few absolute ...more
CDNow
Oddly, it's the faster songs -- once Pearl Jam's forte -- that detract from Binaural as a whole. ...more
Wall of Sound
A formless collection that drifts from one tune to the next, weighed down by a general sense of murk that pervades everything from Tchad Blake's production to the song arrangements and the lyrics. ...more

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