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Accelerate

I’ve been listening to Accelerate for a couple weeks now, and it’s been an interesting experience.  I went into (too much) detail here about my decision to buy my first R.E.M. album in almost thirteen years, but in short, they were a favorite in high school and early college, but after that I lost interest and stopped paying attention to the band.  As a result, hearing R.E.M. now, after so long, is of course going to have that warm feeling of nostalgia – particularly when the record is a back-to-basics record like this, with the band stripping their sound back to a fairly spare rock n’ roll approach.

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