REM can it still ...

... Write brilliant music with intelligent lyrics. Incidentally, you have the complete album ever two weeks before the official sale date posted on the Internet to listen! From the first time I was excited about it, and this feeling increased more and more: titles like "Electron Blue", "Aftermath" and "Around the Sun" are great pop songs that go straight into your ears. With "Make It All Okay" and "I wanted to be Wrong" finds wünderschöne, gentle, SEM typical ballads. "The Outsiders," "Boy in the Well" and "The Worst Joke Ever" is so pleasant dark and melancholic and could smooth originate from "Up". At the chorus of "The Ascent of Man" One probably has to get used first, as well as. The rap in "The Outsiders" ... but it fits somehow there
The album is consistent as a whole and who liked the gloom and barrenness of "Up", coupled with the more casual "easy listening" Sound of Reveal, this album is love. The lyrics are really good by the way, and you would not know that there are cases deal with the political situation, I would at least probably not come out!
Oh, one thing I have to say on the subject of "sell-out": REM It does not matter how many CDs they sell (see publication in the Internet); they just make the music that I enjoy, and if come of brilliant songs that like many people, that's not been her plan ...