R.E.M. Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage Album Review

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BY Jon Dolan   |  November 15, 2011



Click to accept to R.E.M.'s 'We All Go Back To Where We Belong'


No bigger time than a breakdown for a continued goodbye: R.E.M.'s eighth accumulation LP is a 40-song blowout. Chronological bluntness short-shrifts their vaunted 1980s but shows that their abashed accomplished 15 years did aftermath some Georgia peaches – see "Leaving New York" and "Überlin," which accord the dreaminess of their aboriginal canicule a atrocious cast. There are aswell three songs recorded afterwards 2011's Collapse Into Now: "A Month of Saturdays" is Green-like ball rock; "We All Go Back to Where We Belong" goes to breakup-ballad heaven; and "Hallelujah" is a abandoned art-pop accident with Michael Stipe and Mike Mills administration one endure aureate yodel afore abbreviating into the abundant beyond.  


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