I used to dearly love Pearl Jam, but this latest album makes me wonder if Eddie has started hitting a vodka a bit too heavily once again, as his voice is so difficult to put up with now. The alternating clarity and raw-edgedness is gone, replaced by a mumbling barely comprehensible shadow of its former self. Some songs are very difficult even to make out what he's singing. Musically the album sounds great although the persistance of aiming for a "Low-Fi" sound is a bit grating at times. If Eddie concentrated on his own voice more than trying to sound like Neil Young, then this album might be great rather than just ok.