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Rating: For years now, this album has filled my living space with its notes... For years now, No Code has been in stores... Yet I'm amazed to see there's no review here for an album I consider a continuous surprise...
No Code is an album of transition, an album that breaks away from the visceral and powerful trilogy of Ten-VS-Vitalogy and leads us with soft sounds to the next trilogy Yield-Binaural-RiotAct... Clearly, for those who didn't know, we're talking about Pearl Jam... a band that isn't afraid to break away from their past and lays down in this album every thought. Real and mature.
The lyrics are much more straightforward compared to previous works but, at the same time, the hermetic tendency that has always characterized Vedder's verses is not missing... The texts are full of ideas, reflections, declarations, narratives... denunciations...
Musically, there are guitars that create enchanting harmonic loops (Present Tense above all), there are distorted guitars that scratch and thrust out Vedder's angry words (lukin) there are acoustic guitars that tell stories (Off He Goes) there are ironically "poppy" phrases signed by Gossard's evergreen guitar... there's everything or almost everything... what is missing inevitably arises in the listener's mind...
No code might make the "older" Pearl Jam fans frown... but if one has the strength to embrace each album for what it is... No Code rightfully earns the first place...
To listen to. With calm and... "openness"
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