PiacenzaSera listened to you on the fifteenth title of the now vast discography of REM, stores and downloads from last Tuesday, March 8.
The first approach - despite the difficulties related to the immense and unwavering respect for them and despite the timely slating from the critics over 'alternative (with a punctuality that leaves some suspicion about his actual play) - is positive: the beautiful cover and packaging by the great photographer Anton Corbjin, and a single funny and catchy, quell'Uberlin available on the web a few weeks, to be honest, the label has chosen several individuals for various territories: one more rock for America, Mine Smell Like Honey; UBerlin for Europe and Oh my heart - if they do not understand why - in Germany.
The work is varied and never boring, as is some of the latest efforts of the trio of Athens, and also the long list of collaborations and cameos (excellent duet with Peaches pulled in Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter, then Eddie Vedder and Patti Smith) does not disturb too much, although in the case of the latter, and the final Blue looks very acid too much to E-Bow The Letter: On the other hand, the remakes of old songs is a full-blown AIDS in the last REM.
Of course, the comparison with the masterpieces of the past - far away from Murmur and a Life Rich Pageant Document, perhaps the most 'beautiful of all, by Out Of Time for Automatic For The People, up to Monster - is relentless, and, to put it whole, absurd.
The sound is their classic sound, nice and unmistakable, very profession, less inventive. In general, acoustic ballads (Walk It Back, the nursery rhyme Every Day Is Yours To Win, Oh My Heart) do you prefer to electrical parts, often derivative and rarely biting: Discoverer recalls Finest Worksong, Mine Smell Like Honey seems to emerge from Rich Life Pageant. On the Web
started the debate between those who, nostalgic, appreciates whatever "to me it's okay: that sound like REM REM", and who, instead, consider it a useless disc: 'There is too much music and too little time and money on a record like this. "
For us, the first blow, keep dry and sober setting of the penultimate work Accelerate - Though much less aggressive - and you go to place at least a cut above the diptych Reveal / Around The Sun
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