Friday, March 4, 2011

REM's new album voted "best album" of the past twenty years

Madrid, March 4 (EFE) .- The U.S. group REM published next Tuesday "Collapse Into now, twelve songs interspersed with rock, pop slow tempos and rhythms, and the band's bassist, Mike Mills, considered his" best Disk "from" Out of Time ", the 1991 album containing the famous" Losing my religion ". In "Collapse Into now", the trio completed by the singer Michael Stipe and guitarist Peter Buck repeated with producer Jacknife Lee, with whom they already worked on their previous album, "Accelerate" (2008), and has collaborated with artists U2, Snow Patrol and The Hives.

Participate in the new album the singer and poet Patti Smith, singer and songwriter Eddie Vedder, guitarist Lenny Kaye, the lead singer of The Hidden Cameras, Joel Gibb, and singer Peaches. "With 'Accelerate' we asked ourselves a challenge: all sound even faster, with this album we wanted to simply have the best songs, "Mills said in a statement released today by the Warner label.

The bassist chosen as his favorite subject of the album "It Happened Today", which includes backing vocals by Joel Gibb and the "howling" Eddie Veder. "I love the sheer joy and sense of delivery of the voices at the end of the topic. I love everybody scream like that. It's something cathartic, "said Mills." Blue "features the guitar Kaye, the spoken rather than sung, Stipe and the rhythmic chanting of a friend of the band, Patti Smith." It's a sad and emotional song, but hopeful at the end, "says Mills.

For the producer of the album, "Collapse Into now" is a fresh look at how three very different form one to be in harmony. "It's really something strange in this day and age, but no ego clashes between them," said Lee. The producer acknowledges that the most difficult part was choosing the study: "They are very respectful to each other.

The hardest thing was to agree on where to save. I think I've walked through studies of the world, "he said. New Orleans, Nashville and the famous Hansa Studios in Berlin, from which came many legendary albums, such as "Heroes" by David Bowie, "Achtung Baby" by U2, and "Lust For Life" by Iggy Pop, were the places elected to record the album for twelve-week session.

Mike Mills acknowledged that to choose study are set out in detail as there are good restaurants nearby. " "Collapse Into now" comes after his 2008 album "Accelerate," which reached number one in countries like Canada and Britain, and is the fifteenth in his career, which began in 1983 with "Murmur."

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