There's been a lot of talk about REM's decision to finally sound like a rock band again for their new album, Accelerate. I rather like the first single, "Supernatural Superserious," which sounds like the REM I remember, rather than some bloodless adult contemporary act.
So I bought the album, and it's been of shuffle play with a bunch of other stuff for a few weeks now. And you know what? The rest of it is pretty tedious. It is a departure from their recent stuff in that it's at least loud and tedious, rather than adult-contemporary tedious, but I'm not liking it all that much.
I just wanted to throw that out there. Feel free to suggest other recent releases which are less likely to be disappointing.
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# 1 | cisko | May 10, 2008 8:19 AM
New Death Cab for Cutie on Tuesday -- that's the biggest thing I'm looking forward to. Otherwise though I haven't found anything new in a while that's got me pumped.
# 2 | cisko | May 10, 2008 8:20 AM
(Arguing with myself now...) Depending on your definition of "new", the Mike Doughty disc that came out in January is pretty good stuff.
# 3 | cheem | May 10, 2008 6:13 PM
New Portishead came out a fortnight ago. Not at all nostalgic for the days of trip hop, but still, very much their style and very good.