OK, then, I must admit I’ve been sceptical about this one, so disillusioned by “Around The Sun” (three good, if woefully overproduced, songs notwithstanding) that I didn’t even bother to check out any ...

AFTER a few somewhat lacklustre and poorly received albums REM have rediscovered what they do best. Realising that they had to up their game this time around, the band put themselves under pressure to ...

REM's best record in a decade? Ever? Achieving critical mass (adulation) ever again seemed to have been beyond REM's reach long before their last album (the feeble Around the Sun), but while you can't ...