The slow, gorgeous agony of Around the Sun is R.E.M.'s
most contrary studio triumph: a disc of frankly spiritual and
acutely topical protest ballads, draped in futuristic Pet
Sounds strum and hum. But Michael Stipe's tears of rage and
sighs of survival in "Final Straw" and "Leaving New York" will get
under your skin -- like liquid gold -- if you stand still long
enough to let them.
Warner Bros.
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