Pearl Jam, Yield
Pearl Jam YIELD.
Yield found Pearl Jam sounding more like a band in a room again, but the official credits show a record assembled across multiple studios in Seattle and Atlanta with Brendan O'Brien once again helping shape the sound.
Album artwork shown for commentary and historical reference. Image source: Cover Art Archive / MusicBrainz.
SEVEN THINGS
WORTH KNOWING.
The album looks straightforward from the outside. Inside the credits are multiple studios, a drummer near the end of his Pearl Jam run and one song mixed by someone other than the album's main mixer.
Yield was released on February 3, 1998 and contains 13 tracks with a total running time of 48 minutes and 37 seconds.
Pearl Jam co-produced the album with Brendan O'Brien.
The album was recorded and mixed at Studio Litho and Studio X in Seattle, plus Southern Tracks Recording and Doppler in Atlanta.
Jack Irons plays drums across the album alongside Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready and Jeff Ament.
Nick DiDia recorded the album, with Matt Bayles credited for additional engineering.
Brendan O'Brien mixed the album except for "Push Me, Pull Me," which was mixed by Nick DiDia.
The film Single Video Theory documents the making of Yield; Pearl Jam says it was shot entirely on 16mm over three days in 1997.
WHY THIS
ALBUM MATTERS.
Yield captures Pearl Jam at a point where the band could make a large-scale rock record without sanding away its internal quirks. The collaborative production and multi-studio process still leave room for songs that feel loose, strange and distinctly human.
THE
NUMBERS.
TRACKS
Yield contains thirteen tracks.
RUN TIME
Pearl Jam's official page lists a running time of 48 minutes and 37 seconds.
FILMING DAYS
Single Video Theory was filmed over three days in 1997.
THE
PHYSICAL OBJECT.
The cover reduces the title to a real roadside yield sign sitting alone in a wide landscape. It is almost aggressively ordinary, which makes it a perfect visual counterpoint to a band that had spent years surrounded by extraordinary attention.
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