Reckoning (2009) Album Review

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Music critics combined give Reckoning a score of 2.9389 out of 4
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Rolling Stone
R.E.M.'s music is able to involve the listener on both an emotional and intellectual level. Not many records can do that from start to finish.
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John Mcferrin Music Reviews
The biggest disappointment for me with R.E.M.'s second full-length release is that the un-natural maturity and atmosphere that came with Murmur is basically gone here. In other words, where Murmur sounded like a band experienced beyond its
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Stylus Magazine
While the album certainly works as a nice set, the ten songs on Reckoning impose themselves less on the listener as a program than any other album that R.E.M. has made.
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BBC Music
There's an upbeat, cheery swagger to the mix, with only a couple of tracks allowed to meander off like Sunday afternoon garage-band jams.
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Reckoning is ranked overall as 2.8530 out of 4 stars
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Reckoning is ranked overall as 2.9389 out of 4 stars

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