Pearl Jam tease ‘Retrograde’ music video on social media

Pearl Jam took to social media today to tease the release of a new music video. According to a post on Pearl Jam’s Twitter account, the band will release the clip for their track, ‘Retrograde’, on May 14th.

‘Retrograde’ is the fourth single from Pearl Jam’s eleventh studio album, Gigaton. Released in March, it was the band’s first new album in almost seven years. Earlier this year, Variety reported that ‘Retrograde’ was recorded back in 2017, during Pearl Jam’s long break between albums.

Official "Retrograde" video. May 14th. pic.twitter.com/0leNmLUd4J
— Pearl Jam (@PearlJam) May 12, 2020

‘Retrograde’ is not the first of Gigaton’s songs to merit an accompanying video clip. In fact, the band have been releasing videos prolifically since the beginning of the year. The band have released “official visualisers” for several of the album’s tracks, which feature the song set to images of various natural landscapes.

Along with their “visualisers”, the band have released music videos for Gigaton’s ‘Quick Escape’ and ‘Dance of the Clairvoyants’. Pearl Jam have not revealed whether they will release more music videos from Gigaton after ‘Retrograde’.

Speaking to Rolling Stone earlier in the year, guitarist Stone Gossard commented on Gigaton’s musical diversity.

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“There’s definitely some really straight-ahead rock songs,” Gossard said.

“There’s some very spare and very simple ballads. It’s got it all, I think. And it’s really us. We really did it by ourselves.”

Gossard also praised lead singer, Eddie Vedder, for his songwriting abilities, saying he “did a great job.”

“There was a pile of songs, and he sort of took and really, really, in the last two months, mixed and sort of selected the tracks that really were going to be special. And he did such a great job of bringing everybody’s personalities out. It was probably different than any of us would’ve made individually, but it really captures, I think, the spirit of the band.”