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With touring and promotion of 2008’s Accelerate now finished, R.E.M. this year will issue, at a minimum, a pair of archival releases, hitting both ends of its long and fruitful career.
According to a post on the band’s Web site, R.E.M. is preparing a deluxe edition of 1984’s Reckoning that “will be done in the same spirit of Universal’s excellent Murmur deluxe release in 2008.”
That expanded, two-disc edition of Murmur features a remastered version of the album, bonus tracks and a concert recorded in 1983 in Toronto.
Acer laptop drivers windows 10. It’s not yet clear what bonus material will appear on the expanded Reckoning, which, according to the band’s Web site, will “come out sometime toward the end of spring.”
R.E.M.’s other planned release for 2009 is a live record culled from the 2007 “Dublin Working Rehearsals,” a series of concerts in the Irish city that saw the band running through material it later would record for Accelerate.
“Word is that the Dublin package will be something very special including more than ‘just the music,’ although ‘just the music’ those five nights at the Olympia was pretty incredible itself,” the band posted on its site.
And while R.E.M. has no plans to release new music in 2009, the band isn’t quite sitting still.
In an interview earlier this month, Peter Buck confirmed the band is gearing up to start work on another record.
“Within the next few months, Mike (Mills) and I, Scott (McCaughey) and Bill (Rieflin) will be recording some demos that are exploratory and sort of a precursor to what will be coming soon,” Buck told the band’s official site. “We are really looking forward to starting another full studio record later this year.”
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REM’s second album, released in 1984, represented a shift – in much the same way later albums would jar next to one another – from the alluring murk of debut Murmur. It was an attempt (and a successful one at that) to capture the band as the live, fun beasts that they had evolved into in their first three years of existence. Producers Easter and Dixon remained on hand, but this time the sense that they were being provided with raw material so tightly-honed and downright loveable was palpable in every groove. Reckoning remains a highpoint in REM’s first chapter of existence. Central Rain sounds like a lost soul classic, Camera swells to a climax hitherto unknown in REM quarters, while (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville was practically a singalong – perish the thought. Michael Stipe remained fascinating but Peter Buck could now be heard stepping out on the likes of Pretty Persuasion, while the backing presence of Mike Mills was evident everywhere.
A bonus disc of 17 tracks from a Chicago gig of the same year finds the foursome equally joyous; now a unit. It must have proved tantalising for the crowd too – Driver 8 wouldn’t appear until album three, and Hyena album four! Rich pickings.