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No code
Studio album by Pearl Jam
Publication (s)	August 27, 1996
admission	July 12, 1995 - May 1996
Format (s)	CD , LP
Genre (s)	Alternative rock , grunge
Title (number)	13
running time	49:37
occupation	Vocals , guitar : Eddie Vedder Bass , guitar: Jeff Ament Guitar, vocals: Stone Gossard Guitar, piano : Mike McCready Drums : Jack Irons
production	Brendan O'Brien , Pearl Jam
Studio (s)	Chicago Recording Company, Chicago , Illinois ; Southern Tracks Recording and Doppler, Atlanta , Georgia , Studio Litho, Seattle , Washington
chronology Vitalogy (1994) No code Yield (1998)

No Code is the fourth studio album by the American band Pearl Jam . It was released in 1996 and continues the move away from the usual grunge sound that had already begun at Vitalogy .

style

The band is more willing to experiment than on the previous albums and allows influences from different musical styles, including inspirations from Far Eastern and Indian music. Examples of less grunge-oriented songs are the gospel-like “Who You Are” or the rhythmically tricky “In My Tree”. On “Smile” you can hear the influence of Neil Young , with whom the band recorded his album Mirror Ball a year earlier . With the rocking track “Mankind”, for the first time Eddie Vedder does not take over the vocals, but guitarist Stone Gossard.

Emergence

The album was made at the time when the high point of the grunge phase had passed. Nirvana, for example, no longer existed after Kurt Cobain's death, Alice in Chains was paralyzed by Layne Staley's drug problems . The album was re-recorded with Brendan O'Brien in Chicago , Atlanta and Seattle . Jack Irons could be heard on drums for the first time .

reception

The album was less successful than its predecessors. The reviews were very different. Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic wrote that the heart of the record was not in the harder songs, but in the slower ones. The album is a bit "incoherent", but the richest and most rewarding and the "most human" album to date. He awarded three and a half stars out of five. Marcus Schleutermann from Rock Hard criticized the album. For example, Smile is a "rip-off" (copied piece) by Neil Young , with whom the band had previously worked. The other compositions and the vocal performance were also criticized. Vedder's voice is "tearful" in places. He awarded six out of ten points. Music magazines like Rolling Stone and Musikexpress, however, praised the album enormously. It has sometimes been called the band's strongest album.

layout

Like the previous album, No Code was also released in an elaborately designed cardboard cover. Inside there are several Polaroid recordings with the lyrics and authors printed on the back. More such pictures can also be found on the cover and back cover of the album.

Track list

1. Sometimes
2. Hail, Hail ( Gossard , Vedder , Ament , McCready )
3. Who You Are (Gossard, Irons , Vedder)
4. In My Tree (Irons, Gossard, Vedder)
5. Smile (Ament, Vedder)
6. Off He Goes (Vedder)
7. Habit
8. Red Mosquito
9. Lukin (Vedder)
10. Present Tense (Vedder, Gossard)
11. Mankind (Gossard)
12. I'm Open (Irons, Vedder)
13. Around the Bend (Vedder)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} www.allmusic.com: No Code review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
2. ↑ ^{a b} www.rockhard.de: No Code review by Marcus Schleutermann

Web links

No Code at Allmusic (English)