- alternative rock, rock
- 66 min
- 14 tracks
- Warner Bros. Records
New Adventures in Hi-Fi is the tenth studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was their fifth major-label release for Warner Bros. Records, released on September 9, 1996, in Europe and Australia, and the following day in the United States. New Adventures in Hi-Fi was the band's final album recorded with founding drummer Bill Berry, original manager Jefferson Holt, and longtime producer Scott Litt.
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Character
Spare, character-led, grave and contemporary.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- Christgau's Consumer GuideA−
- Entertainment WeeklyA
- The Guardian3/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times4/4 ★
- NME8/10
- Pitchfork9.5/10
- Q5/5 ★
- Rolling Stone4.5/5 ★
- Spin6/10
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Tracks
- 1How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us4:31
- 2The Wake‐Up Bomb5:08
- 3New Test Leper5:27
- 4Undertow5:09
- 5E‐Bow the Letter5:25
- 6Leave7:18
- 7Departure3:29
- 8Bittersweet Me4:06
- 9Be Mine5:33
- 10Binky the Doormat5:02
- 11Zither2:34
- 12So Fast, So Numb4:13
- 13Low Desert3:32
- 14Electrolite4:05
14 tracks, 66 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- R.E.M.
- Label
- Warner Bros. Records
- Released
- 1996
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- BR
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