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 | Up - REM
Publisher: Warner Bros.
Released on 26 October 1998
List Price: £15.99
After REM's somewhat ambitious 1996 album, New Adventures in Hi-Fi , failed to light up the charts, you might have figured the band would return to the rock-solid bombast of Monster or the consumer-friendly pop of Green . But REM have enough cash not to worry about commercial failure, and they've already been to the top of the mountain, so for now they'd rather explore its lush valleys and secret caves. Up is an atmospheric journey as impressionistic as Enya and as evocative as John Barry. Some critics have compared it with the band's delicate and emotionally revealing gem Automatic... Read More |
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