R.E.M. Accelerate On 180g 45RPM 2LP Set

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Pioneers Return to Roots on 2008 Album

Accelerate, the first studio album in four years from R.E.M., finds the musical pioneers returning to the stripped-down, guitar-driven power that they made their name on. Helmed by the band and for the first time, Jacknife Lee (co-producer of U2’s 2005 Grammy Album of the Year How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb), Accelerate revitalizes alternative rock, a genre the band helped invent.

"I feel like there's a confidence in the material, and a communication between the three of us that hasn't been there for some time," frontman Michael Stipe said about Accelerate's upcoming release. "We didn't talk to each other for a couple of records -- as friends or as bandmates. And we reached a point before this LP where we just sat down at a table and hashed it out."

R.E.M. Accelerate Track Listing:

1. Living Well Is The Best Revenge
2. Man-Sized Wreath
3. Supernatural Superserious
4. Hollow Man
5. Houston
6. Accelerate
7. Until The Day is Done
8. Mr. Richards
9. Sing For The Submarine
10. Horse To Water
11. I'm Gonna DJ