<![CDATA[The New R.E.M. Accelerates Past Its Release Date To The Web - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[The New R.E.M. Accelerates Past Its Release Date To The Web - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:18:46 EDT Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:18:46 EDT http://idolator.com/368621/the-new-rem-accelerates-past-its-release-date-to-the-web <![CDATA[The New R.E.M. Accelerates Past Its Release Date To The Web]]> http://idolator.com/368621/the-new-rem-accelerates-past-its-release-date-to-the-web#c4738841 " possibly thanks to the heavily compressed sound that producer Jackknife Lee is known for. "

So that means undynamic, aimed at I-Pod earbud quality, and clips-per-minute in the 500 range? Yeah, that'll win the kids back!

HomefrontRadio

]]> 33:368621:c4738841 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:18:46 EDT <![CDATA[The New R.E.M. Accelerates Past Its Release Date To The Web]]> http://idolator.com/368621/the-new-rem-accelerates-past-its-release-date-to-the-web#c4737579 They sound like they wrote this with a drummer instead of the soggy protools sound of the last two albums. I wonder how they found Jacknife Lee - are there Bloc Party fans in R.E.M.?

Also, they were great at their SXSW ACL taping (score!)

Harvey Birdman

]]> 33:368621:c4737579 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:29:16 EDT <![CDATA[The New R.E.M. Accelerates Past Its Release Date To The Web]]> http://idolator.com/368621/the-new-rem-accelerates-past-its-release-date-to-the-web#c4733242 I feel like it's New Adventures: Part Deux. The thing that disappointed me was that the guitar sound is so samey throughout the record.

blackmailismylife

]]> 33:368621:c4733242 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:42:06 EDT <![CDATA[The New R.E.M. Accelerates Past Its Release Date To The Web]]> http://idolator.com/368621/the-new-rem-accelerates-past-its-release-date-to-the-web#c4732017 @Gumboots: I'm still trying to figure out if that's a good or bad thing.

pantycrickets

]]> 33:368621:c4732017 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:58:08 EDT <![CDATA[The New R.E.M. Accelerates Past Its Release Date To The Web]]> http://idolator.com/368621/the-new-rem-accelerates-past-its-release-date-to-the-web#c4731852 "I started over from the beginning. I actually wanted to listen to a recent R.E.M. disc...again, and without being disappointed or depressed"

Interesting. Usually the best part about listening to a new R.E.M. release is the overwhelming urge one gets to pop in Reckoning or Fables of the Reconstruction afterward.

Gumboots

]]> 33:368621:c4731852 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:50:48 EDT <![CDATA[The New R.E.M. Accelerates Past Its Release Date To The Web]]> http://idolator.com/368621/the-new-rem-accelerates-past-its-release-date-to-the-web#c4730688 @Dan Gibson: as rockin' as Daughtry?!?!

pantycrickets

]]> 33:368621:c4730688 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:56:19 EDT <![CDATA[The New R.E.M. Accelerates Past Its Release Date To The Web]]> http://idolator.com/368621/the-new-rem-accelerates-past-its-release-date-to-the-web#c4730553 @Rob Murphy: If the context isn't "classic R.E.M.", you're vastly more likely to enjoy it than someone expecting a band in its twenties. It's less self conscious than "Monster", which I appreciated, but there's no track as immediate (to me) as "The Great Beyond".

Dan Gibson

]]> 33:368621:c4730553 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:48:12 EDT <![CDATA[The New R.E.M. Accelerates Past Its Release Date To The Web]]> http://idolator.com/368621/the-new-rem-accelerates-past-its-release-date-to-the-web#c4730520 @pantycrickets: I mean, it doesn't sound anything like "Reckoning" for certain, but it does rock in the same sense that Snow Patrol discs "rock" on occasion.

More so than any U2 album in recent memory at very least.

Dan Gibson

]]> 33:368621:c4730520 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:45:54 EDT <![CDATA[The New R.E.M. Accelerates Past Its Release Date To The Web]]> http://idolator.com/368621/the-new-rem-accelerates-past-its-release-date-to-the-web#c4730293 Every new album of theirs is supposed to be the album that R.E.M "brings back the rock". They haven't really rocked since their second album "Reckoning", so I'm doubting this album will be any different. Oh well, maybe it will inspire another generation of high schoolers to say they were listening to R.E.M before anyone!!!

pantycrickets

]]> 33:368621:c4730293 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:34:37 EDT <![CDATA[The New R.E.M. Accelerates Past Its Release Date To The Web]]> http://idolator.com/368621/the-new-rem-accelerates-past-its-release-date-to-the-web#c4730271 Nice review, Dan.

Having never really been an R.E.M. fanboy, I've always been much more likely to enjoy R.E.M. material that *does not* sound like "classic R.E.M." How does this record compare against Monster or "The Great Beyond"?

Rob Murphy

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