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AV CLUB PART 5 ON R.E.M.

The AV Club has posted the fifth installment from their six-part series on the band, “Perfect Circle: An R.E.M. Story.” This time they look at “R.E.M.’s least embraceable album” Fables of the Reconstruction:

Fables Of The Reconstruction isn’t my favorite R.E.M. record. I’ve warmed to it a lot in the last few years, but it’s probably the one I’ve played the least from R.E.M.’s “golden” era. But it was Fables—€the band’s third LP, released in 1985, when it was still more than a year away from going gold for the first time—€that brought me back to R.E.M. after I stopped listening for several years, and had given up on the band.

Read the full article here.