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Stone Gossard added that the band being more comfortable with the composing and recording process lead to 'a slight return to some of the more sort of peculiar things we did, say, between No Code and Binaural.' McCready said that 'there's a Pink Floyd vibe to some of it, there's a punk rock edge to other stuff', with the lead singles ' Mind Your Manners' and ' Sirens' being inspired by the Dead Kennedys and a concert in Roger Waters' The Wall Live, respectively. In contrast to the short tracks of Backspacer, Lightning Bolt features longer songs and a more experimental sound that McCready declared to aim for 'a logical extension of what Backspacer was'. After six weeks of new recording sessions, the album was mixed in Seattle at the band's desire, with the process taking place in Studio X. Like with previous records the songs had their first recordings with all the musicians playing together, though O'Brien added that with Lightning Bolt 'we don’t keep as much of as we used to.' Guest musicians include O'Brien himself at the keyboards, long time keyboardist Boom Gaspar, and violinist Ann Marie Calhoun. Vedder still considered that all the diversions helped Pearl Jam to have 'more importance placed on the records' and focusing on making the best album possible. O'Brien attributed the long break to the band's busy schedule, as the musicians got into side projects after putting the Pearl Jam album on hold: singer Eddie Vedder started a solo tour, drummer Matt Cameron returned to Soundgarden, guitarist Stone Gossard rejoined side project Brad, Ament recorded solo album While My Heart Beats and started the project RNDM, and McCready formed the group Walking Papers while also taking part in a partial reunion of Mad Season. Work on the album resumed only in March 2013 as the bandmembers regrouped with new compositions, mostly done separately in each member's home studio-though McCready at times worked along with drummer Matt Cameron-before the group reunited to finish the songs together. Īfter some time developing demos, the musicians returned to Henson in March 2012, recording seven songs before the band decided to take a break, as according to guitarist Mike McCready 'we had to take some time to figure out what we wanted to do.' Guitarist Stone Gossard added that despite the bandmembers thinking that after the productive sessions the album was nearing completion, eventually they considered the tracks 'didn’t feel strong enough for a record. O'Brien considered that the studio helped the band get to a 'submarine mentality, and everybody going into the ship together', and bassist Jeff Ament added that working outside the band's hometown Seattle led the musicians to work more efficiently. In 2011, amidst preparations for the documentary Pearl Jam Twenty and its accompanying tour, the band recorded some tracks with O'Brien at Los Angeles' Henson Recording Studios, with the song 'Olé' being issued as a free download. Soon after completing Backspacer in 2009, Pearl Jam and producer Brendan O'Brien intended to soon repeat the experience given that according to O'Brien 'we had a really good time doing it.'. Preceded by a promotional campaign focusing on Pearl Jam's website and social network profiles and two moderately successful singles, ' Mind Your Manners' and ' Sirens', Lightning Bolt was well received by critics, who considered the album an effective return to the band's old sound, and topped the charts in the United States, Canada, and Australia.

The music for Lightning Bolt has a harder rock sound with longer songs in contrast to predecessor Backspacer (2009), and the lyrics convey singer Eddie Vedder's feelings on aging and mortality. As all band members got into side projects afterwards, work on Lightning Bolt only resumed in March 2013.

The band began composing new songs in 2011, the album's first recording sessions took place in early 2012 before the musicians decided to take a break. Produced by long-time Pearl Jam collaborator Brendan O'Brien, the album was released in the United States on October 15, 2013, through the band's own Monkeywrench Records, with Republic Records handling the international release one day earlier. Lightning Bolt is the tenth studio album by the American rock band Pearl Jam.