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Album Details
- Artist: R.e.m.
- Album: Collapse Into Now
- Label: Warner Bros.
- Year of Release: 2011
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- Reviewed by: toddlevinsonfrank on 2011-03-09
RecommendR.E.M.’s new album Collapse Into Now just breathes where its predecessor was trying to breathe fire. It’s nuanced, whereas Accelerate simply pushed the needle attempting to rock its way back to their early sound.
Accelerate was a fine record, and its sometimes-generic rockers are as good as some of the similar-veined material on Collapse Into Now. But the new one succeeds by acknowledging that the mid-tempo meditations (and mandolins!) are also part of the classic R.E.M. sound.
The clean mix puts the spotlight on Peter Buck, without turning everything up to 11. It combines a healthy dose of the acoustic atmospherics and mellow moments (that led them toward the sleepy missteps of their recent work) with enough energetic rockers to keep everyone awake.
Forget all the “finding their religion” puns, finally all of their sounds collapse into now.
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