of Matteo Monaco
The last effort of REM. Already, in the literal sense of the term, because the group of Michael Stipe, now passed through three decades of musical metamorphosis more or less fortunate, is now embroiled in an understandable limbo.
How can a band of fifty revive the memory of angry indie-rock of the '80s, after all these years? And above all, it should, or should find a way to produce a more relaxed, "old"? What puzzled by this "Collapse Into Now" is this question left open by the collective of Athens.
On the album, there are certainly positive aspects to the hearer without enthusiasm a bit of healthy rock somewhere ("Mine Smell Like Honey", "That Someone Is You") and then a lot of folk-blues " à-la REM "perhaps earn more points in the repetition over time, almost like a dirge for the contemporary history. Here is the
single "ÜBerlin"
In itself, the album is not boring and often involves dreamy in its network, but we have recorded under criticism from a fan's passion for composing progressive decline in recent years. In many forums and in many magazines, we saw what the situation is REM in 2011: on the one hand, the group toyed between launches and promotional pop star plans to stop with the tour (because, according to drummer Peter Buck, nobody buys records then what would promote them?), while the supporters are divided between nostalgia of the first, second, third period, and so on, who wants them and who wants them to indie pop, in other words, a mess.
That Someone Is You by LucasAndrade
I doubt there are many, and probably without solution: no one can tell where it comes from the musical intuition, and from where the work of job, nor can sensibly discuss the future (and past) of a group said to contain much in itself symbolic aspects that transcend the music actually played.
Perhaps the best attitude is to suspend the guest, to enjoy what these four great artists know how to propose today: mature sound, know, that album after album rediscovers himself sometimes preferring the raw rock (like in "fast track"), or intimacy, as in this "Collapse Into Now".
After all, if young band trying to emerge literally copying Bowie and new wave, we can not really be disappointed by a group that, just by copying itself, it still makes me want to immerse themselves in every new album. You do the tour or not.
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