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New Adventures In Hi-Fi
Album profile: New Adventures In Hi-Fi
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In the wake of the raging, guitar-fueled MONSTER, R.E.M. has made an album dominated by disconsolate ballads and acoustic instrumentation. NEW ADVENTURES has a stately, elegiac feel. It's punctuated by a few all-out rockers, but the overall mood is dusky and introspective. Michael Stipe's stream-of-consciousness imagery has developed into an incisive, poetic style of great power and resonance, from the religious overtones of "Undertow" (which reveals a Can influence) to the breathless travelogue of "Departure". The opener, "How the West Was Won And Where It Got Us", sets a dark tone, with an eerie organ backdrop and a mournful piano providing a staccato riff. Punk goddess Patti Smith guests on "E-Bow the Letter", a wordy ramble that finds Stipe questioning, and ultimately denigrating, "this fame thing". A similar theme is explored on "The Wake-Up Bomb", a MONSTERish raveup that attacks celebrity star trips. NEW ADVENTURES is loaded with musical surprises, including a zippy synthesizer that sparks "Leave", a campy instrumental called "Zither" and various discordant touches throughout. Lyrically and musically, R.E.M. stands its ground throughout, remaining as fresh and innovative as ever. |
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REM |
| Released : | |
01/09/1996 |
| Label : | |
WEA |
| Genre : | |
Rock |
| Catalogue no : | |
9362463204 |
| Available format : | |
MC |
Track listing :
| 1 : How the west was won and where it got us | 8 : Bittersweet me |
| 2 : Wake up bomb | 9 : Be mine |
| 3 : New test leper | 10 : Binky the doormat |
| 4 : Undertow | 11 : Zither |
| 5 : E bow the letter | 12 : So fast so numb |
| 6 : Leave | 13 : Low desert |
| 7 : Departure | 14 : Electrolite |
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