Singer-Songwriters : Into The Wild: Music For The M

Into The Wild: Music For The M

CDN$ 10.79

  1. Setting Forth
  2. No Ceiling
  3. Far Behind
  4. Rise
  5. Long Nights
  6. Tuolumne
  7. Hard Sun
  8. Society
  9. Wolf
  10. End of the Road
  11. Guaranteed

Taking a break from his day job fronting rock heavyweight Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder immerses himself into the big-screen story of a young man who gives all his money to charity and hitchhikes to a new life--and his eventual death--in the wilds of Alaska. Prompted by the film s creator, Sean Penn, to contribute to the musical score, the Seattle musician tackled the entire project, playing every instrument on the soundtrack s nine original and two cover songs. Vedder contemplates the traveler “,setting forth in the universe”, in the opener Setting Forth, then tracks in the remaining songs the realizations and disillusionments that follow. A wish comes true in banjo-plucked No Ceiling to up and disappear, while affluence is questioned on the hard-rocking Far Behind, with Vedder singing, Empty pockets will/Allow a greater sense of wealth. No song in the album s first half exceeds two-and-a-half minutes, remedied by Vedder s pertinent five-minute stamp on the remake of Indio s Hard Sun, complete with eerie backing vocals by Sleater-Kinney s Corin Tucker. The songwriter puts wealth on the hot seat in Society, questioning, If less is more/How you keepin score? The darkly sung folk song bookends the reticent declaration Guaranteed, wonderfully delivered and quietly strummed, in which the prodigal Vedder wraps the journey in one line: Leave it to me as I find a way to be/Consider me a satellite forever orbiting. (The record is packaged like a hardcover book, with vivid photography and lyrics.) --Scott Holter

Short and Sweet - This is a wonderful little collection of songs and songs sketches. Clocking in at just over a half and hour it hints a the potential for a much more grand, large scale development of this type of music in the future.Length aside, this is a wonderful album. A treat for pearl jam lovers and haters alike. The music is a new turn for Vedder. Sure it had precidents in songs like the strangest tribe footsteps and off he goes, but the feel and texture of these works are different. Many of the best pieces of music on this album run just under two minutes, yet they capture a mood, develop beautiful harmonies, and hook the listner in so swiftly that they feel longer. In truth, while I hunger for more of this type of music from vedder, the is a strange grace to the shortness of this album. A note on the album as a soundtrack: this short little album perfectly resonates with the movie and the book, perfectly resonates with what Chris McCandless felt and thought as far as we can tell. In this way it stands as its own testament to the story, fleshing out the emotional scape where the movie and book dealt with the scene and the facts.The bonous tracks that are available, political covers updated for the present, are priceless.A great album, which demonstrates the versatility of Eddie Vedder s talent, and once again shows that he can write popular more mainstream music without losing his touch for creating depth of thought and emotion, or originality of sound and cadence.

Natural Connection - After listening to the album and now that I m reading the book. There seems to me a natural connection between the music of Pearl Jam and the some of the ideals in the book. Recommended

Eddie s Back...But where s Pearl Jam? - Like most of the reviews, for this album will state, I love Pearl Jam, and this album will make you wonder what happened to PJ. Anyways, Into the Wild, is a motion picture made by Sean Penn and music by Eddie Vedder. Eddie is back in his usual form with some great, although sometimes short songs, will make any PJ fan salvate and wish for more, basically making this album a great appetizer for a new Pearl Jam album. However, Eddie is still Eddie with or without Mike, Matt, Jeff, or Stone, he s still a brilliant artist/poet and perhaps one of the best musicians of his generation, with a great album that will probably be the best thing that comes out with this Sean Penn movie.

Sketches Never Develop into Songs - I m a long time fan of Pearl Jam, especially of songs such as Elderly Women Behind the Counter of a Small Town and Daughter. For me these songs are evocative of a unique emotional mixture, at once melancholic and transcendent. Vedder is given room in the sountrack of Into Thin Air to work with this emotional palette to create some beautiful sketches. At 33 minutes, however, the album is too short. Vedder needs to flesh out these inspired sketches into songs. The album s only true song is also the album s highlight, a cover of Indio s Hard Sun. Vedder s original material had the potential to surpass the majesty of that song, it is frustrating that this potential is never realized.

Why contain yourself like any other book on the shelf? - Eddie Vedder s solo album Into the Wild, which also happens to tie-in with the movie of the same title, is one album that music lovers will not want to miss. Following the conventions that saying less actually says more, Into the Wild evoked emotions that Vedder seems to effortlessly convey to listeners. Although the album is short, I felt it was only appropriate to do so, in order to have a more lasting impact. I bought this album the day it came out, without even hearing a single song from the album - a risk I was willing to take from my favourite frontman from my favourite band Pearl Jam. This album did not disappoint. You can listen to it from beginning to end, and then on repeat. I have had this cd running its circles non-stop ever since I bought it. Pick this album up if you re ready for a unique listening experience - Be it no concern, point of no return, go forward in reverse...




Into The Wild: Music For The M