start from scratch. Or one.
From "Accelerate", the disc of 2008.
not make sense to look too far back, to tell the REM's "Collapse Into Now". That story, the story begins in 1980 and continues with six-disc in six years, from 1983 to 1988, the story of "Green" and "Out Of Time, Losing My Religion that became a worldwide hit as well, from scratch, "Automatic For the People", perhaps the best album of the 90s pop rock of "Monster" and "New Adventure in Hi-Fi", the story of Bill Berry it stops playing and "Up" comes out no one knows how, "Reveal" and "Around the Sun". That story here, there and that weighs a ton, let's leave aside for a moment.
us leave "Accelerate", indeed. REM probably arrived by the end of the rope after attempting to play the card of the great pop band worldwide. They have never been
U2, Radiohead and even, though in the collective are listed as one of three or four bands from stage left. Passed right over the last decade, Coldplay, Muse and Pearl Jam.
had to be something for everyone, were the thing of many. An atypical group, and just go to a concert to realize this. A concert in a stadium. One of those with a full house. The feeling is that most of those people were there to listen to a couple of songs and nothing else. The rest were and are fans. Of the real ones. Those who have lived independent of the REM, or have taken the opposite course. Backwards. After
"Around the Sun" seemed finished, intended to dissolve or continue finishing to become the caricature of the group that was. Those who go to see live hoping for the greatest hits. And little else.
are broken down by themselves. With a fast disk. A disk group. From room. Attack tools and parts, go. Sounds.
not a revolution, but at least one act of belonging, that is. REM have recovered the '80s and '90s without making too many claims. A return to the past to please their audience, but to survive a crisis.
understand what the group is and was. Understand above all that would never have been. I'm not a band for years spent in the studio to polish any defects. Even in the most complex records there was a sense of precariousness that made them special. Different from everything. Then they sat down, but they did anyway risk.
With "Accelerate" are back to not asking questions. Having fun. And in fact, that album has enjoyed critical and commercial feedback perhaps excessive. They're back the covers of American magazines, everywhere there was talk of REM as a group, now disbanded, returned to the track. And in shape.
In reality, that disk had defects. And not a few. He was a disc attitude, sound but no songs (not all, at least). It was what we wanted at the time, though.
"Collapse Into Now" takes off from there. They are of REM "Accelerate" with the sounds "acceleration", who try to start writing the REM does not focus on one style is rock but also pop. They have distorted electric guitars, acoustic and well. They are the group that wrote "Monster", but also the one who wrote "Out of Time". They are making
REM REM
Well, honestly, without sounding like a caricature of themselves. And without even asking the question too of what is expected of them. Just look at the way they have chosen to promote the new album. Very few interviews, no tour, a video is not so easy, made two singles out at the same time, a lot of previews.
"Collapse Into Now" is simply the photograph of the group right now. It is not a disk on automatic pilot, is the album that they wanted to do and they had to do now.
And never mind if the songs are like others, if one has the feeling of having already heard. Again, this is REM, their recognition has always been their greatest strength. Those guitar riffs, that voice, those choruses. Everything you need, and it's there.
not expect revolutions or a disk that will change your life. That have already done. And if you are still here means that we have succeeded. Do not expect even the record of the year. But an album that we will hear much, especially if you are among those in this group an almost physical need. There, that is. What is
. A hard honest, after thirty years of his career.
It is not just ... (And if, as seems likely, this will be the last album by REM, well maybe, you will cry for the first time that the dissolution of a group, my group ...)
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