Pearl Jam's seventh album, Binaural, tops rock album releases hitting stores this week.

New LPs from Phish, Sonic Youth, Juliana Hatfield and Veruca Salt also will arrive Tuesday.

The music on Binaural, which follows up Yield (1998), is an accumulation of Pearl Jam's 10 years as a band, singer Eddie Vedder recently said.

"I think in our bag of music, in our bag of whatever's been formed from past influences to current experience, you're gonna reach in and there's going to be similar-sounding things to some things that you've done before," Vedder said. "We were able to keep our musical landscape fairly open. I think we've always taken advantage of that. I don't think [this album is] that much different in that way."

The album includes the single "Nothing As It Seems" (RealAudio excerpt).

Improvisational jam-rockers Phish release Farmhouse, featuring 12 songs recorded at guitarist Trey Anastasio's barn in Vermont.

Rock experimentalists Sonic Youth release NYC Ghosts & Flowers, an eight-song collection that mixes accessible sounds with touches of the avant-garde.

Guitarist Lee Ranaldo said the New York sensibility that runs through the disc wasn't something the band was shooting for at the outset.

"We live here, so it's kind of just like the background for everything that we do," he said. "We did have the title of the record fairly early on, but it really wasn't until the very last stages of the recording process, where we were adding the vocals to things, that it really became a little bit more overly evident that we were rocking this kind of New York vibe."

Veruca Salt, who scored rock hits in the mid-'90s with such singles as "Seether," deliver Resolver, their first album without singer/guitarist Nina Gordon.

Listeners are likely to hear several songs, including the single "Born Entertainer," as remaining frontwoman Louise Post's commentary on the split.

"This album encompasses a wide scope of experiences," Post said recently. "In one song I may cover any relationship from my father to an ex-boyfriend to my best friend, or detach myself enough to be about a character I've created."

Hatfield will unleash two albums Tuesday, Beautiful Creature and Total System Failure, the latter of which is credited to Juliana's Pony.

"It's a little complicated," Hatfield recently told MTV News of her double-disc situation. "Beautiful Creature is a bit more mellow, but it is 'the Juliana Hatfield record.' Juliana's Pony is a little side-project band, and that [album is] more rock. It's harder, maybe a little more fun. Well, they're both really fun, actually.

Hatfield used a mix of musicians and producers for Beautiful Creature, which features the song "Somebody Is Waiting for Me." Meanwhile, Total System Failure is "sort of a power trio," she said. It features Hatfield on guitar and vocals, former Weezer bassist Mikey Welsh, and Zephan Courtney on drums.

Texas pop-rockers Bowling for Soup serve up their first nationwide release, Let's Do It for Johnny!, while hard-rock veterans Motörhead deliver their 20th album, We are Motörhead.

Former Underworld DJ Darren Emerson's releases the mix set, Uruguay, his first project since he left the group last month. The techno-leaning, two-disc album feature tracks by the Orb, Dave Clarke and Ron Trent.

The first U.S. release of the popular "Essential Selection" UK mix series will include a disc by Fatboy Slim.

Other releases include: classic-rocker Peter Frampton's Live in Detroit; pop-punks the Queers' Beyond the Valley ... of the Assfuckers; a two-CD retrospective from techno-pop innovators Devo, called Pioneers Who Got Scalped; Stereolab's The First of the Microbe Hunters; pop-rockers the Promise Ring's EP Electric Pink; the Waxwings' Low to the Ground; Joe Jackson's live album, Summer in the City; and industrial-rockers Apartment 26's Hallucinating.