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Reckoning by R.E.M. (CD, Apr-2000, I.R.S. Records) 
Reckoning by R.E.M. (CD, Apr-2000, I.R.S. Records)

 
Reckoning by R.E.M. (CD, Apr-2000, I.R.S. Records)

Artist: R.E.M.
Release Date: Apr 2000
Format: CD
Record Label: I.R.S. Records
Genre: Alternative, Rock & Pop
UPC: 632427601722
Product ID: EPID52943613
Description: R.E.M.: Michael Stipe (vocals); Mike Mills (vocals, bass); Bill Berry (vocals, drums); Peter Buck (guitar). Recorded at Reflection Sound, Charlotte, North Carolina. The murmuring continued with this, R.E.M.'s second album, recorded in on...
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Distributor:Musicrama Distribution
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:DDD

Album Notes
R.E.M.: Michael Stipe (vocals); Mike Mills (vocals, bass); Bill Berry (vocals, drums); Peter Buck (guitar).
Recorded at Reflection Sound, Charlotte, North Carolina.
The murmuring continued with this, R.E.M.'s second album, recorded in only two weeks, and yet critical acclaim and a growing fanbase had not made the music any less elusive. From the cover depiction of a winding river/snake, the jangly music within was similarly ambiguous, drenched in alternately murky, then dazzlingly clear, images. The water theme predominates throughout side one's five-song suite, with talk of harbours, oceans and water towers, crowned by the sublime lament of "So. Central Rain." Later, the melancholic eulogy of "Camera" sits comfortably beside the cod-country of "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" and the brisk but disillusioned tour around "Little America." An astonishingly assured and uncommercial half-sibling to MURMUR: file under water.

Editorial Reviews
Included in CMJ's list of Top 25 College Radio Albums of All Time
CMJ (01/06/2003)

Ranked #1 in CMJ's Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1984.
CMJ (01/05/2004)

...RECKONING gets over on straight-up songcraft...
Spin (12/01/2003)

4 stars out of 5 -- RECKONING aims for the gut with roundhouse drumming, sunburst guitars, Podunk country ballads...and just enough poetic vagueness...
Blender

4 stars out of 5 -- [T]he powerful RECKONING established the band as bona fide leaders of the new American indie-rock underground.
Rolling Stone

[I]t is host to a kind of determined minimalism, each song building via subtle variations in performance and instrumentation.
Pitchfork

[T]he songs betrayed a folk-country influence -- the Byrds, in particular -- resulting in an album refreshingly out of fashion for 1984.
Spin

4 stars out of 5 -- [T]he jangle and crunch of Buck's Rickenbacker brooked no confusion; here were the seeds of every baroque experiment with mandolins and balalaikas that lay ahead...
Q

4 stars out of 5 -- RECKONING remains a highpoint in REM's first chapter of existence. 'Central Rain' sounds like a lost soul classic...
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