It has been almost six-and-a-half-years since the American music group Pearl Jam released an album. That changed Friday when the band dropped its eleventh collection, Gigaton.
Many dictionaries define the word as an explosive force equal to one billion tons of TNT, an industrial explosive. Critics have noted that this new album includes hard rock. Reviews are filled with words like fury, thunder, and hammering. Entertainment Weekly calls the music “a gathering storm of guitars.”
Words in This Story
review –n. a piece of writing that gives an opinion about a cultural work or art
fury –n. great anger
thunder –n. the very loud sound of lightening
hammering –n. the loud sound made when something is hit with a hammer
carbon footprint –n. the amount of gasses, linked to climate warming, that are released by an activity
fragile –adj. something that is easily damaged