REM - New Adventures in Hi-fi

a strange beast this REM album. following a run of hits including 1992's smash hit automatic for the people but more importantly 94's faux-concept album and less widely recieved monster REM were at a crossroads of world domination or alienation of a facile and fleeting public. This album, whilst truer to their signature sound than monsters' all distortion and noise, was probably still too left of field to appeal to the unconvinced out of time, atomatic.. hangers on. for their real fans it recalled previous sounds and memories, e-bow the letter is a modernised country leaver, bittersweet me a slowed down version of cant get there form here wake up bomb a sequel to popsong 89. As it turns out REM were to reveal ( pun intended ) that they weren't at the end of their creative road and still had something to offer both hardened fans and the great unwashed with later releases