Reveal

Reseña del editor R.E.M. marked their 20th anniversary as a band with 2001's Reveal. Their twelfth studio album was widely acclaimed for its melodic, layered sounds and made many of the year-end "Best-of" lists. Reveal went gold in the US, and platinum in the UK, and featured GRAMMY-nominated single "Imitation of Life": a top 10-hit in the UK and Canada, and the band's first #1 single in Japan. Tienda R.E.M. have no right at this advanced stage in their career to be making such a spirited and beautiful album as Reveal. Twenty years after "Radio Free Europe," they're still jiggy as year-old pups. Reveal is the sound of a band that's beyond feeling the need to change or to prove themselves to each new generation, but retains its passion. Michael Stipe's voice is at its most evocatively beautiful on "I've Been High," and Peter Buck's eclectic tunes continue along the highly accessible vein mined on 1998's Up. Stipe continues his emergence as an up-front vocalist whose lyrics, if never entirely self-explanatory, now make ingenious use of more readily identifiable phrases, images, and vignettes. Hovering over much of the album is the spirit of Brian Wilson, whose genius is echoed in "Beachball" and almost transcended in the astonishingly plangent "Summer Turns to High." With so much to live up to, it's not far short of astonishing that R.E.M. can still come up with a song such as the gorgeously chiming and shimmering "Imitation of Life," which, on its own, is worth the price of admission. But, from the first synthesizer swirls of the opener "The Lifting" onward, there's nary a dud to be heard on Reveal. --Johnny Black

Detalles del producto Descatalogado por el fabricante : No Idioma : Inglés Dimensiones del producto : 5,55 x 4,92 x 0,47 pulgadas; 3,25 Onzas Fabricante : Concord Records Número de modelo del producto : 2031306 Fecha de lanzamiento original : 2001 Código SPARS : DDD Producto en Tienda desde : Diciembre 14, 2006 Etiqueta : Concord Records ASIN : B00005BL29 Número de discos : 1 Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº55,653 en CDs y Vinilo (Ver el Top 100 en CDs y Vinilo) nº52 en Jangle Pop de Indie y Lo-Fi nº1,107 en Alternativo Adulto (CDs y Vinilo) nº3,534 en Pop Vocal (CDs y Vinilo) Opiniones de clientes: 4.5 4.5 de 5 estrellas 465 calificaciones Descatalogado por el fabricante : No Idioma : Inglés Dimensiones del producto : 5,55 x 4,92 x 0,47 pulgadas; 3,25 Onzas Fabricante : Concord Records Número de modelo del producto : 2031306 Fecha de lanzamiento original : 2001 Código SPARS : DDD Producto en Tienda desde : Diciembre 14, 2006 Etiqueta : Concord Records ASIN : B00005BL29 Número de discos : 1