{"product_id":"r-e-m-up-cd-used","title":"R.E.M. \/ Up - CD (Used)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e R.E.M.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Warner Bros Records\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Remixes included\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 01-07-2016\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Review\n\n\nEven with the words written in black and white, the meaning of these compelling but impressionistic tunes remains elusive. The opening cut, Airport Man, is laced, as most of the tracks are, with odd sonic effects.... --\nPeople\n\nPeter Buck's once-assertive guitars mostly have gone all liquidy or simply disappeared; a layered array of pianos, organs, string adornments and mechanically ticking synthesizers and beat boxes supersedes the old guitar-band approach to evoke twilight moods that are by turns unsettling and caressing. --\nLos Angeles Times\n\nThe songs are built around humming, gently throbbing electronic keyboards.... Peter Buck's guitars don't ripple; instead, they dart in and out of the songs like sound effects. Once [Bill] Berry left, we knew R.E.M. would never be the same....\nUp is the sound of the band trying to reshape its sound and vision. --\nEntertainment Weekly\n\n\nAmazon.ca\n\n\nAfter REM's somewhat ambitious 1996 album,\nNew Adventures in Hi-Fi, failed to light up the charts, you might have figured the band would return to the rock-solid bombast of\nMonster or the consumer-friendly pop of\nGreen. But REM have enough cash not to worry about commercial failure, and they've already been to the top of the mountain, so for now they'd rather explore its lush valleys and secret caves.\nUp is an atmospheric journey as impressionistic as Enya and as evocative as John Barry. Some critics have compared it with the band's delicate and emotionally revealing gem\nAutomatic for the People, but\nUp is more ambitious and creative. Sure, most of the songs are pastoral, but they're undercut with drama and sonic experimentation. The melodies are generally spare, the beats sparse. Guitars flicker in and out, providing tension and dynamics, while quivering strings, layered keyboards, and washes of feedback colour the songs like textured lines of paint in an oil portrait. The only blatant pop song is the single \"Daysleeper\". The rest of the album ebbs and flows, each song a separate component of a complete artistic expression. The sound may be influenced by guitarist Peter Buck's cinematic jazz side project Tuatara or by Michael Stipe's celluloid excursions, but its source doesn't matter. What's important is that more than a decade after their sell-by date, REM continue to challenge and inspire. Things are definitely looking up.\n--Jon Wiederhorn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUPC:\u003c\/b\u003e 093624711223\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 0093624711223\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Audio CD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eItem Condition:\u003c\/b\u003e UsedVeryGood\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ID Shop.ca","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45931484905506,"sku":"6T-KCP8-3S5E","price":3.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0889\/9428\/3554\/files\/41GrtwCcZGL.jpg?v=1783574905","url":"https:\/\/kastor.club\/products\/r-e-m-up-cd-used","provider":"Kastor","version":"1.0","type":"link"}