If you feel like it’s been a minute since you had some sweet alt-rock goodness in your life from Seattle’s favourite sons, there’s good news for you. It looks like Pearl Jam fans may not have to wait much longer for a follow-up to the band’s 2013 album, Lightning Bolt.
While things are only in their planning stages right now, bassist Jeff Ament recently caught up with Vice and revealed that after a planned South American tour, the band are hoping to work on new music in 2016. “The band will probably try and get another record going in the next year,” he said.
The South American sojourn, which was announced several months back, will span nine dates, kicking off this November in Chile and concluding in Mexico City later that month. These shows will be the band’s first since their tour in support of Lightning Bolt, which included an appearance at the last Big Day Out.
As Ultimate Classic Rock note, if Pearl Jam manage to record a new album next year, it will jibe with the schedule they’ve maintained since 2002’s Riot Act, which started a decade of releasing albums with three-to-four gaps in between LPs.
As Consequence of Sound reports, during their post-Lightning Bolt downtime, the band have been pursuing a range of other projects, including a special reunion for Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains spin-off band Mad Season.
Meanwhile, Eddie Vedder continued his soundtracking career by contributing music to Cameron Crowe’s Aloha and guitarist Mike McCready joined a bunch of other Seattle musos for a one-off benefit gig as a Stooges tribute band called Raw Power.
