Accelerate

R.E.M. - Accelerate

Accelerate
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Artist: R.E.M.
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-04-01
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. Living Well Is The Best Revenge
  2. Man-Sized Wreath
  3. Supernatural Superserious
  4. Hollow Man
  5. Houston
  6. Accelerate
  7. Until The Day Is Done
  8. Mr. Richards
  9. Sing For The Submarine
  10. Horse To Water
  11. I'm Gonna DJ

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Free Music Review: REM
Hit: 3 Stars

REM with Michael Stipe have come up with an album that produces a "tried and true" sound. The group's strength is in its past efforts, however. Any true REM fan should have this in their collection, but I'd personally like to smack the cover artist upside the head. There is nothing attractive about the product, and, if you judge a book by its cover, you will judge this "book" unworthy.

Accelerate Poster

In the decade since the departure of drummer Bill Berry, R.E.M. could seem at times schizophrenic. Their albums of the era, which veered from the experimentalism of Up and reaffirmation of Reveal to 2004's more diffuse, reflective Around the Sun, often stood in stark contrast to the vibrancy of their live act. But here the alt-rock godfathers have resolved that dichotomy with their most focused and satisfying album in over a decade; a collection that doesn't so much revisit the bracing ethos of the band's '80s coming-of-age, as boil it down to its essence and supercharge it with the energy of their contemporary stage shows. That sensibility is evident from the opening track, "Living Well's the Best Revenge," where Peter Buck's aggressive, distortion-drenched riffs and Michael Stipe's gruff snarl set the tone for "Mansized Wreath," "Horse to Water," and "Supernatural Serious"; rockers that bristle with the abandonment and aggressive energy of a band half their tenure. Yet it's no mere blast-from-the-past. The inclusion of the band's recent touring musicians (Scott McCaughey on second guitar and drummer Bill Rieflin) into the session mix, as well as working out much of the material live onstage in Dublin, has yielded something more sonically akin to R.E.M. 2.2. Stipe's penchant for the lyrically opaque has been largely supplanted by an edgy, articulate passion that variously explores "Houston'"s displaced Katrina refugees, the bluegrass-tinged "Until the Day is Done," and the more typical, quiet self-examination of "Hollow Man," before exploding in the album's unlikely, upbeat elegy "I'm Gonna DJ," where singer and band find renewed hope in not only music, but themselves. --Jerry McCulley

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