Around The Sun

Description

After the best of episode (CD and DVD), REM returns with a "barometer" record, in correlation with current events and the state of the world, critical according to Michael Stipe, the author of the Athens trio. In addition to Final Straw, composed in urgency when the USA attacked Iraq, and available for free download via the band's website, "Around the Sun" brings together the unstoppable Leaving New York (the first single taken from the album) and the very successful Boy In The Well, Wanderlust, or Electron Blue.
Clever guitars, diffuse keyboards, and airy vocals have long been the hallmark of a band that uses no recipe but matures by nurturing its sound and ideas, which is especially reprehensible for those who are incapable of it.