NPR’s Will Hermes says, “By my math, Collapse Into Now is R.E.M.’s best record in about 16 1/2 years. It does everything that the group has ever done well, even the thing that first defined it: making profoundly moving rock ‘n’ roll out of singing that, strictly speaking, is unintelligible.”
Listen to NPR’s audio review of COLLAPSE INTO NOW in there Music Reviews’ section: