- alternative rock, rock
- 35 min
- 11 tracks
- Warner Bros. Records
Accelerate is the fourteenth studio album by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on March 31, 2008, in Europe, and on April 1 in North America. Produced with Jacknife Lee, Accelerate was intended as a departure from the 2004 album Around the Sun. R.E.M. previewed most of the album's tracks during a five-night residency at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, and recorded the album in a nine-week schedule.
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Character
Spare, grave, character-led and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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Metacritic 79/100
- AllMusic4/5 ★
- The A.V. ClubB+
- Entertainment WeeklyA−
- The Guardian4/5 ★
- Mojo4/5 ★
- NME8/10
- Pitchfork6.7/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- Spin4.5/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Living Well Is the Best Revenge3:12
- 2Man‐Sized Wreath2:33
- 3Supernatural Superserious3:24
- 4Hollow Man2:39
- 5Houston2:05
- 6Accelerate3:34
- 7Until the Day Is Done4:09
- 8Mr. Richards3:46
- 9Sing for the Submarine4:51
- 10Horse to Water2:18
- 11I’m Gonna DJ2:08
11 tracks, 35 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- R.E.M.
- Label
- Warner Bros. Records
- Released
- 2008
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- AU
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