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Music > Albums > REM - Around the Sun (2004) Retail CD
added on May 9, 2007, at 14:08 by Menta

Despite the gushing critical acclaim and many positive comments in response to R.E.M's 2001 effort Reveal, I just couldn't make myself like it. As a result, I wasn't as enthusiastic about purchasing Around the Sun as I might otherwise have been. Up was good but it seemed that R.E.M. had lost something following the departure of drummer Bill Berry after the criminally under-rated New Adventures in Hi-Fi.So it was something of a surprise to discover that this album is outstandingly good. There's not a weak track on it and there are some excellent ones. The Outsiders and Boy in the Well are just two of the highlights. In my view, the only R.E.M. albums to better this are the peerless Automatic for the People and the aforementioned New Adventures in Hi-Fi.

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