Re-releases of two late-stage albums
The noughties were the hard ones for REM: only three studio albums, and with each underselling release the one-go-more feeling grew stronger. “Around The Sun” has the right themes (9/11 in “Leaving New York”, the Iraq War in “Final Straw”), but it’s an average work: the very good songs are very good (“The Ascent Of… .
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