Pitchfork is streaming "Supernatural Superserious," the first single off R.E.M.'s new album, Accelerate, due out this April, and after the critical drubbing they took in 2004 with Around the Sun (which, I must admit, I own but have not listened to), the new track sounds like a welcome return to form (a little jangle here, some Mills/Stipe vocal intertwining there)... whatever that means for a band that has been around for almost 30 years and has adopted countless guises.
With my avoidance of Around the Sun, I'm more than a little embarrassed to say that this and "The Final Straw" are the only two new R.E.M. songs I've heard in the past 6 years. ("I'm Gonna DJ" is languishing on R.E.M.: Live which is gathering dust on the '07 Music Pile.) I'm the worst R.E.M. fan ever.
- R.E.M. HQ
- Pop Songs 08 (Matthew Perpetua's R.E.M. Song Discussion Archive)
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