The Georgians’ major-label debut – even more thrilling and subversive a quarter of a century on…
Pointedly released on Election Day 1988, REM’s sixth album — and the group’s major label debut — completed the college-rock band’s improbable rise to the top of the rock pyramid alongside U2, who were then coming off the monumental Joshua Tree. That the Athens foursome pulled off this feat without compromise or calculation bespeaks an era when mass appeal and artistic adventurousness went hand in hand. READ THE FULL REVIEW AT uncut.co.uk…