ReviewsRanked #13 in Rolling Stone's "The Top 50 Albums Of 2006" -- "These are songs about universal accountability and the still-revolutionary power of individual dissent.", 3 stars out of 5 -- "Self-titled with good reason: Pearl Jam sound reborn, vital. The first three tracks are full-tilt rockers...", 4 stars out of 5 -- "As big and brash in fuzz and backbone as Led Zeppelin's PRESENCE....The politics on PEARL JAM are not those or left but of engagement and responsibility.", "They stand and deliver on this belatedly eponymous barnstormer, the seriously hopped-up effort fans have been pining for since VITALOGY." -- Grade: B+, "Gossard and McCready's molten guitars mesh electrifyingly for an opening brace of rockers shot-through with air-punch hooks and Eddie Vedder's valiant howling-into-a-hurricane croon..."