R.E.M. Around the Sun promo test pressing 2LP
  $   218

 


$ 218 Sold For
Feb 3, 2013 Sold Date
Jan 31, 2013 Start Date
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R.E.M. Around the Sun hails from 2004 and is a U.S. 13-track vinyl promotional test pressing 2LP (matrix number R1-78422).  Since the careening, ragged Reckoning followed the hazy, dreamlike Murmur, each R.E.M. album had an element of a surprise, offering something different than what came before. That's not the case with Around the Sun, which refines and polishes the blueprint of Reveal. This is as slow and ballad-heavy as Automatic for the People, but where that album was filled with raw emotion and weird detours, Around the Sun is tasteful and streamlined. It offers no weighty themes and is emotionally removed. With their layered, low-key production, R.E.M. seem hell-bent on leaving behind anything that could be construed as their signature sound, so keyboards and drum machines are pushed to the front as Buck's guitar strums instead of jangles and Mills' background vocals are buried in the mix under Stipe's double-tracked harmonies. All the quirks in the production have been sanded down and glossed over.

1. Leaving New York
2. Electron Blue
3. The Outsiders - Featuring Q-Tip
4. Make It All Okay
5. Final Straw
6. I Wanted To Be Wrong
7. Wanderlust
8. Boy In The Well
9. Aftermath
10. High Speed Train
11. The Worst Joke Ever
12. The Ascent Of Man
13. Around The Sun

 

 

 

 

 


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