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Maybe I'll just live-tweet my first listen to the album. * It's called "Generation Ship", sounds like a demented outtake from ELO's Time. First 3 were classics, and digging the first track * Holy crap, Secret Powers is out with another album (4th in 4 yrs). ![]() So here are my initial reactions to their fourth album in four years (the verbatim tweets): However, I was so stoked to see Secret Powers was out with a new album that I decided to experiment and live-tweet a review on Twitter while listening to it for the first time. A dark, dangerous but delightful record that's as good–if not better–than new.Usually I post a review after I've listened to an album over a period of a couple of weeks. If that wasn't enough, it all comes packaged in a deluxe mini boxset with new liner notes, postcards and a poster. Although the versions here lack the dark magic of those on the album, there's an unnerving, lo-fi bleakness to these recordings which adds to their apocalyptic nihilism. #Rem fables of the reconstruction deluxe rar full#This reissue comes with The Athens Demos, a second disc containing 14 cuts–including the full album in embryonic form, two other demos and one previously unreleased song. Overall, Fables is the embodiment of confusion, of minds and worlds unsure about their futures, a sense of foreboding intensified by Stipe's oblique, muddied lyrics. #Rem fables of the reconstruction deluxe rar driver#Maps and Legends, Driver 8 and the hypnopompic lament of Wendell Gee recall the jangly guitars and slight country twang of those first two albums, but they still sound somewhat twisted and deranged. Old Man Kensey extends that sense of impending doom, while Auctioneer (Another Engine) and Kohoutek are full of a nervous, jittery energy. It begins with the metallic sheen of Feeling Gravity's Pull, the sound of a slow-motion apocalypse, an iron world rusting. This third effort marked a change in direction for the band, who infused its 11 songs with dark, unsettling undertones. sound bolder and crisper than it did before–but really, it's testament to the timeless nature of Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe's songwriting. Part of that is down to the remastering–which makes Fables. The remarkable thing is that Murmur, Reckoning and now, in 2010, Fables of the Reconstruction (or Reconstruction of the Fables–the cover was designed so that the title becomes an infinite, unending loop) sound not just old albums reborn, but like brand new ones. Presumably this will continue each year until their last album for IRS, Document, turns 25, by which time the series of 30th anniversary editions will have probably begun. Similarly last year, to celebrate its quarter-century, their second album Reckoning was reissued with another live album. ![]() Twenty-five years later, in 2008, a deluxe anniversary edition was brought out, newly remastered, with a bonus live concert. Murmur, their seminal debut album, was released in 1983. Now into the fourth decade of their career, it's easy to forget the significance of R.E.M.'s music, especially the five albums released on IRS Records. The commemorative 2CD release presented in a luxury lift-top box is completed with a band poster, four postcards and a booklet containing insightful new liner notes by R.E.M. Also, including one long-sought track "Throw Those Trolls Away" making its release debut. #Rem fables of the reconstruction deluxe rar plus#New edition of the classic 1985 album, plus bonus disc `The Athens Demos' with 14 previously unreleased demo recordings, cut prior to the album's studio sessions. ![]()
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