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Around the Sun
by R.e.m.
ALBUM RANKINGS:
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.
Overall Rating:
2.0353
Avg. Critic Score:
2.1316
Around the Sun Rank 2 Reviews
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Rolling StoneAnother slow, meandering CD. ...more
John Mcferrin Music ReviewsIhate to say it, but it looks like it's time for R.E.M. to call it a day. Granted, one could have said the same thing after Monster , and had the band actually followed that advice I would have been deprived of Up and Reveal , but I really feel this ...more
ShakingThrough.netIts sporadic pockets of accessibility aside, it's difficult to listen to Around the Sun without hearing it as a holding pattern, or worse, a piece of product released simply to keep the R.E.M. brand out among the public. ...more
cokemachineglowSound[s] less like the work of an actual band than a sterile concoction created by scientists in white lab coats. ...more
PitchforkIts chief problem is that every word, every note, and every instrument sounds dry, sapped of most of their personality. ...more
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Pitch Fork MediaAfter the surprise departure of drummer Bill Berry, the remaining members of R.E.M. found themselves unmoored and adrift both professionally and musically. They had always presented R.E.M. as a cohesive, democratic whole, with all four members ...more
BillboardThe band's writing stagnates, rendering the majority of the album in a rote midtempo formula that Stipe's increasingly trite lyrics can't always save. ...more
Stylus MagazineThe good news is things pick up, eventually. The bad news is the album ends just as it starts getting interesting. ...more
The Onion (A.V. Club)In eliminating both the mystery of its early years and the restless spirit of more recent times, R.E.M. leaves just exactly what R.E.M.-haters probably felt the band made all along: midtempo, largely hookless adult rock. ...more
PopMattersHowever different the early and mid-period records are, they all sounded daring, fresh, and inspired in their own ways. Compare that to the lifeless "High Speed Train" which plods along in perfectly measured time for the longest five minutes I've ever ...more
Drowned In SoundWhere the two remaining musicians in the band appear to have gone astray, Michael Stipe sounds positively lost, never to be found again. ...more
All Music GuideR.E.M. have never seemed as directionless. ...more
The Daily Vault Album ReviewsI noticed this album did not get mentioned in any ofthe Top Ten listson our Web site. With many bands returning to form with great albums -- Beastie Boys, U2, Green Day -- I figured R.E.M.'s new release would have turned a few heads.Then I listened ...more
Stylus MagazineThe secret to R.E.M.âs success was simple: no one ached better.It explains why popists hate them so much (âcause the ache left little room for genuine âpopâ in their sound), and also why theyâre the worst arena-rock band of ...more
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