Although Pearl Jam has taken a break from recording the follow-up to 2020’s Gigaton, the band’s guitarist says work on the upcoming album will resume “pretty soon.”

Stone Gossard says he and his bandmates recently set the project aside to make up a handful of concert appearances that were cancelled because of the pandemic.

“We’re taking some time off right now,” he says. “We finished up all the makeup dates that we lost from three years ago. The plan is that we’re gonna do some more recording, and we’re gonna try to finish a record here pretty soon. There’s songs that are getting close to being done and there’s a bunch that aren’t. And we’re gonna do something here pretty soon.”

Among the tasks left to accomplish is deciding which songs will make the cut, according to Gossard.

“Everybody writes in the band, so now it’s really just trying to figure out, really, what’s something different for us and what’s something exciting,” he says. “And we’re working on that. I think we’ve got a good start on another record that will be hopefully good.”

The as-yet-untitled album is due sometime in 2024.