ESPERANDO SIN ESPERAR XXV: Stone has said...

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18th of January 2013 jamonline.it:

Question: 
Eddie Vedder said that you are halfway done with your next album ...
 
Stone Gossard: 
"More or less. We have five songs ready, more to come in the next three, four months. It could be done by summer, who knows."
 
Question: 
How is it going to sound? Or how would you like it to sound?
 
Stone Gossard: 
"We are at too early a stage to speculate. We still don't have an album idea to discuss, speculation would not help. I do not want to think about it: I want to do it, first. Obviously I hope it will be a great record. I hope it sounds fresh in people's ears. Interesting. Different. These are intangible qualities: you know you have them captured only after you did."
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