 | Reveal - REM
Publisher: Warner
Released on 14 May 2001
List Price: £11.99
REM have no right, at this advanced stage in their career, to be making such spirited and beautiful music as that on Reveal. Twenty years after "Radio Free Europe", they're still jiggy as year-old pups. Reveal is the sound of a band who have moved beyond feeling the need to change or to prove themselves to each new generation, but still want to make music that expresses a passion for life. Michael Stipe's voice has never been more evocatively beautiful than it is on "I've Been High", and Peter Buck's eclectic tunesmithery has continued in the highly accessible vein it was mining on their previous album, Up. Those who yearn to hear the Stipe of old, mumbling incomprehensibly behind murky Byrds-u-like chords, will remain disappointed by his increasing emergence as an upfront vocalist whose lyrics, if never entirely self-explanatory, now make ingenious use of phrases, images and vignettes that anybody can identify with. Hovering over much of the album is the spirit... Read More
| Tracks |
| Lifting | I've Been High | All The Way To Reno (You're Gonna Be A Star) | She Just Wants To Be |
| Disappear | Saturn Return | Beat A Drum | Imitation Of Life |
| Summer Turns To High | Chorus And The Ring | I'll Take The Rain | Beachball |
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