With their first full-length release,Murmur, R.E.M. dumped the trademark jangle-pop of their lo-fi debut EP,Chronic Town, for much bleaker themes. Singer Michael Stipe took on a more cerebral socio-political stance, his distant tone casting an ...more
The Daily Vault Album Reviews
Around the same time The White Stripes were in high school, one of my co-workers called R.E.M.’sMurmur“the greatest garage rock album of all time.”Say what?I initially thought garage rock meant loud, dissonant guitars. Bands like ...more
John Mcferrin Music Reviews
The more I listen to this album, the more I'm amazed by something that I don't really see mentioned much by other people. If I knew absolutely nothing about R.E.M., and you were to play this album for me and ask me to guess how far into the ...more
All Music Guide
Leaving behind the garagey jangle pop of their first recordings, R.E.M. developed a strangely subdued variation of their trademark sound for their full-length debut album,Murmur. Heightening the enigmatic tendencies ofChronic Townby de-emphasizing ...more
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