This article is about the 2009 Pearl Jam album. For the 1996 Supergroove album, see Backspacer (Supergroove album). For the keyboard key, see Backspace.
Backspacer
Studio album by
Pearl Jam
Released
September 20, 2009 (2009-09-20)
Recorded
February 16 – April 30, 2009
Studio
Henson, Hollywood
Southern Tracks, Atlanta
Doppler, Atlanta
Genre
Alternative rock[1]
hard rock[2]
Length
36:38
Label
Monkeywrench
Producer
Brendan O'Brien
Pearl Jam chronology
Pearl Jam (2006)
Backspacer (2009)
Live on Ten Legs (2011)
Singles from Backspacer
"The Fixer" Released: August 24, 2009
"Got Some"/"Just Breathe" Released: October 31, 2009
"Amongst the Waves" Released: May 17, 2010
Backspacer is the ninth studio album by the American rock band Pearl Jam, released on September 20, 2009. The band members started writing instrumental and demo tracks in 2007, and got together the following year to work on an album. It was recorded from February through April 2009 with producer Brendan O'Brien, who had worked on every Pearl Jam album except their 1991 debut Ten and 2006's self-titled record—although this was his first production credit since 1998's Yield. Material was recorded at Henson Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California, and O'Brien's own Southern Tracks Recording in Atlanta, Georgia. The album—the shortest of the band's career—features lyrics with a more optimistic look than the politically infused predecessors Riot Act and Pearl Jam, something frontman Eddie Vedder attributed to the election of Barack Obama. This is also the first album since 1996's No Code for which all lyrics for the album were written solely by Vedder.
The band released the album through its own label Monkeywrench Records with worldwide distribution by Universal Music Group via a licensing agreement with Island Records. Physical copies of the record were sold through Target in North America, and promotion included a deal with Verizon, a world tour, and moderately successful singles "The Fixer" and "Got Some"/"Just Breathe". Reviews for Backspacer were largely positive, praising the sound and composition, and the album became Pearl Jam's first chart topper in the U.S. Billboard 200 since No Code, while also topping the charts in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
^Goodman, William (September 30, 2009). "Pearl Jam's 'Backspacer' Hits No.1!". Spin. Retrieved September 7, 2017.
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September: Backspacer" (Backspacer review). Time. September 8, 2009. Retrieved on September 9, 2009. Powers, Ann. "Pearl Jam's 'Backspacer': Four stars"...
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released on the label, as of April 2024, all of them by Pearl Jam: 2009's Backspacer, 2013's Lightning Bolt, 2020's Gigaton and 2024's Dark Matter. "Monkeywrench...
tracks written during 2008. The album Backspacer was its first to be produced by Brendan O'Brien since Yield. Backspacer debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard...
The Backspacer Tour was a concert tour by the American rock band Pearl Jam to support its ninth studio album, Backspacer (2009). Fifty-six shows were played...
the backspace key also deletes characters, but to the left of the cursor. On many keyboards, such as most Apple keyboards, the key with the backspace function...
particular use. The Backspace character can also be entered by pressing the ← Backspace key on some systems. The ambiguity of Backspace is due to early terminals...
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original content – Traction, from which four singles were taken, and Backspacer, which yielded two singles. Between the two they recorded the EP Tractor...
In computing, a keyboard shortcut also known as hotkey is a series of one or several keys to quickly invoke a software program or perform a preprogrammed...
U+007F in Unicode. Terminal emulators may produce DEL when ← Backspace key or Control+← Backspace or Control+? are typed. This code was originally used to...
typewriters, including tilde. Overprinting was intended to work by putting a backspace code between the codes for letter and diacritic. However even at that...
self-owned label Monkeywrench Records, starting with their ninth studio album, Backspacer, in 2009. Since its inception, Pearl Jam has sold 34 million albums in...
Typewriters lacking the euro sign can imitate it by typing a capital ⟨C⟩, backspacing, and overstriking it with the equals sign ⟨=⟩. Placement of the sign...
tilde, an accent backspaced and printed over other letters for non-English languages. Nowadays the key does not produce a backspaceable character in US/UK...
saw a return to wide commercial success with 2006's Pearl Jam, 2009's Backspacer and 2013's Lightning Bolt. Alice In Chains reformed for a handful of reunion...
eponymous Pearl Jam, was released in 2006. The band followed it with Backspacer (2009), Lightning Bolt (2013), and Gigaton (2020). During the production...
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