[TR24][OF] R.E.M.(REM) - Automatic for the People - 1992/2012 (Rock)

Automatic For The People is the haunting masterpiece from alternative rock legends, R.E.M. Layered with lush strings and glistening keyboards, the band’s eighth studio recording is a musical exploration on life’s mortality. Listed as one of Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time,” the record peaked at #2 on Billboard’s Top 200 and yielded six hit singles including “Drive,” “Ignoreland,” “Everybody Hurts,” “Man On The Moon” and “The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite.” The multi-platinum album earned worldwide success and remains one of the band’s most celebrated releases. Reviews
Included on Rolling Stone's Essential Recordings of the 90's.

"...R.E.M. has never made music more gorgeous....shimmers with new, complex beauty....musically irresistible....finds the band gaining a startling emotional directness..." - Rolling Stone

"...deeply moving and entirely idiosyncratic....the songs tend to be rich and subdued, full of lush strings and deep feeling....shows the band moving into more personal territory than ever before....the band's greatest triumph..." - Rating: A - Entertainment Weekly

Listed on Q Magazine's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime."

"Their dreamiest. Here, they pair melancholic folk-rock apparitions with hopeful strings." - Blender Magazine