Eddie Vedder

Eddie Vedder's first solo album serves as the soundtrack to Sean Penn's 2007 film of the same name. Into the Wild retells the true story of Christopher McCandless, who left behind his wealthy D.C. suburban/honor-student life and disappeared into the wilds of Alaska, where he died, apparently of starvation. As can be imagined, the tone of the album is somber, but not in a morbid way. Instead Vedder uses the story to bring up questions about what really matters in life and poses ideas about McCandless' reported desire to extricate himself from what he saw as a damaged and sick society.

Shortly after Pearl Jam released Ten, a disillusioned twenty-something named Christopher
McCandless dropped out of society, hitched cross-country and perished in the Alaskan
wilderness. Now Eddie Vedder tells the young man's story on the soundtrack to Sean
Penn's Into the Wild, tossing his weighty baritone onto earthy, folky tracks that temper the
romance of absolute freedom with an eerie foreboding. Vedder strikes a cinema... More >