R E M - Around The Sun CD

3.1 out of 5 stars (13 Customer Reviews)


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Since the careening, ragged Reckoning followed the hazy, dreamlike Murmur, each R.E.M. album had an element of a surprise, offering something different than what came before. That's not the case with Around the Sun, which refines and polishes the blueprint of Reveal. This is as slow and ballad-heavy as Automatic for the People, but where that album was filled with raw emotion and weird detours, Around the Sun is tasteful and streamlined. It offers no weighty themes and is emotionally removed. With their layered, low-key production, R.E.M. seem hell-bent on leaving behind anything that could be construed as their signature sound, so keyboards and drum machines are pushed to the front as Buck's guitar strums instead of jangles and Mills' background vocals are buried in the mix under Stipe's double-tracked harmonies. All the quirks in the production have been sanded down and glossed over. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

R.E.M.: Michael Stipe (vocals); Peter Buck (guitar); Mike Mills (bass guitar).

Additional personnel: Q-Tip (rap vocals); Hahn Rowe , Ken Stringfellow, Scott McCaughey, Bill Rieflin, Jamie Candiloro.

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Rolling Stone (p.99) - 3 stars out of 5 - "R.E.M. here resemble their classic selves."
Rolling Stone (p.151) - Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Records Of 2004 - "[A] disc of frankly spiritual and acutely topical protest ballads, draped in futuristic PET SOUNDS strum and hum."
Spin (pp.112-14) - "AROUND THE SUN is R.E.M.'s return to folk-rock chamber music..." - Grade: B-
Uncut (p.100) - 4 stars out of 5 - "These 13 songs are sung by people exhausted by the trials of their country, haunted by ghosts of its promise, tentatively hopeful of renewal or reconciliation."
Uncut (p.75) - Ranked #16 in Uncut's "Best New Albums of 2004" - "[A] set of powerfully reflective songs populated by the walking wounded rather than shiny happy people."
Alternative Press (p.113) - "Thirteen studio albums into their career, R.E.M. can still throw listeners for a loop. 'The Outsiders' is as velvety smooth as Massive Attack..." - 4 out of 5

Around The Sun Music

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Category	Rock/Pop Albums, DVD Audio CDs, Alternative, Rock, Enhanced CD
Label	Warner Bros.
Orig Year	2004
All Time Product Rank	101,639
CD Universe Part number	6827225
Catalog number	49315
Discs	1
Release Date	Mar 01, 2005
Studio/Live	Studio
Mono/Stereo	Stereo
Producer	R.E.M.; Pat McCarthy
Engineer	Jamie Candiloro
Personnel	Mike Mills - bass guitar Peter Buck - guitar Michael Stipe - vocals Also: Q-Tip, Scott Mccaughey, Bill Rieflin, Ken Stringfellow, Jamie Candiloro, Hahn Rowe

Around The Sun Music

Around The Sun CD (2004) 3.1 stars

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5 stars the best in years
since OUT OF TIME, the first cd I like from A to Z, I'm hunger to see them in concert here in mexico in next december.
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3 stars rem around the sun
fanatstic album for a true rem ran..first reviewer must have listened to this while sleeping
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1 star worst rem of all times
nearly all ofhis tracks would sounded misplaced in a collcetion of the worst b-sides. let's hang the producer and tell michaelto come down to the earth
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4 stars R.E.M. around the sun -- a very good album
REM's new album is a different direction for the band, no "Bad Day" single here that I was expecting. It's like a REVEAL second album with a different perspective on life and music. Leaving New York, Electron Blue, I wanted to be wrong --are truly great songs.
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5 stars Sorry I really love this album
Yes it does require a few listens, however the discovery is well worth the minor effort. AND I WILL NOT COMPARE this great album to any of REM's earlier works, that would be totally ludicrous. Why don't so called fans simply allow artists to evolve. Kinda boring producing new works with hints of the old. Some people should just stick to purchasing greatest hit albums.
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