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Although far from R.E.M.'s crowning achievement, Out of Time is a perfectly crafted pop record with very little flaws. It's a big leap from Green, which was an awesome record already, but it can also be appealing to Murmur and Reckoning fans. There's only one true masterpiece on here, and you know what it's called - a song so perfect it never loses its replay value despite being overplayed on radio and elsewhere. But the rest of the record is filled with brilliant hooks so catchy it makes me ... read more

I think it was Friedrich Nietzsche who said that "the world spins around those who invent new values, rather than those who invent new noise". It seems like it's all about new noise in music, and that would explain the immense popularity Black Midi have gained in the past few years. They're not inventing a new genre or a style, nor they are transcending the concept of a genre itself - their music, however unhinged it seems at first, is strictly bounded within its genre's regulations. ... read more

Got this on vinyl recently, so it's probably time I finally review it. The fact is it's a perfect record. And there is not a single track that I would ever retract.

1984 Bruce Springsteen is probably my favorite metamorphosis in music history - depressed by a lack of commercial success, holes up in a rented house, writes Nebraska, a desolate and haunting lo-fi folk album, suddenly gains interest in lifting weights, gets back to E Street Band and becomes the hottest DILF of the 80s. Jokes ... read more

a modern classic