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Reveal

by R.e.m.

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of 455,611

7,909
2000's

of 265,875

918
2001

of 35,059

116

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Overall Rating: 2.8112 Reveal is ranked overall as 2.8112 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 2.8765 Reveal has an avg. critic score of 2.8765 out of 4 stars

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The A.V. Club

Add "redefining how rock groups age" to the list of R.E.M.'s accomplishments. Time was, a reference to "the R.E.M. sound" had a single meaning: jangly, Byrds-inspired guitar-rock, paired to evocative but difficult-to-discern lyrics. A ...more

PopMatters

R.E.M.'s Reveal Doesn't LListening to R.E.M.'s new album Reveal has been a frustrating experience. On the one hand, I feel the need to support them. The state of quality pop rock is so dire that to attack the field's pre-eminent statesmen is certainly ...more

PopMatters

1 998's Up felt like a truly important step for R.E.M., their finding a new way of expressing themselves. Down to a threesome after the departure of drummer Bill Berry, the band shook off potential irrelevancy by heightening their songs' emotional power ...more

Entertainment Weekly

Peter Buck's recent arrest for ''criminal damage'' of airline crockery notwithstanding, R.E.M. have aged as gracefully as possible for a rock band. Together 20 years now, they've spent the last 10 mostly refining the elegiac chamber pop patented on ...more

Yahoo! Music

There is no sure mathematical formula to figure out the precise moment when a band has exceeded its life expectancy. But the result is always the same. Their records sound routine and only hardcore fans are left to care. It's happened to everyone from ...more

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Yahoo! Music

Give 'em credit for realizing that Up was a dead-end, an avenue paved with forced experimentalism that signified nothing. Dock them points for harboring the desire to wander down that path, choosing to indulge in fuzzy details that add texture, but not ...more

thenightowl.com

The boys of R.E.M. finally live up to their name with the sleep-inducing Reveal. An album that doesn't stray too far from the group we all know and love, it also doesn't offer up anything in terms of exciting music. I suppose the first clue that they ...more

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