R.E.M. combined their new electronic sound with the more organic acoustics of their previous work to produce this lush mood music.
"We're really interested in finding the beauty of music," says Mike Mills. "Taking a song and seeing how you can find something really lovely inside it, I think that might tend to make it sound a little more introspective than it really is."
"I like it when I find an album I can put on and leave on through dinner or through a party," Stipe explains. "So I kind of consciously tried to steer stuff toward something that was cohesive from beginning to end, as a piece."
'Reveal' was produced by Pat McCarthy, and included Posies guitarist Ken Stringfellow, multi-instrumentalist Scott McCaughey and drummer Joey Waronker, who toured with the band on the 'Up' tour. 'Reveal' topped album charts in Austria, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, and the UK.
'Imitation Of Life' was the lead-off single. It was a top ten hit in the UK and Canada, number one in Spain, and became their first number one in Japan. Stipe revealed that "the entire video took 20 seconds to shoot. What you're watching is a loop that goes forwards for 20 seconds, backwards for twenty seconds, forwards for twenty seconds, backwards for twenty seconds, with one camera, static, and then using a technique called 'pan and scan', which is a technical thing that is used when they go from a widescreen format and reformat to fit your television or DVD, moving in on certain parts of the entire picture. And you'll see that we do that picking up various people within the frame."
"That's sugarcane that tasted good.
That's cinnamon, that's Hollywood.
C'mon, c'mon no one can see you try.
No one can see you cry."
The emotional surge of 'The Lifting' opens the album as strongly as any in their catalogue.
"You've said the air was singing
It's calling you you don't believe
These things you've never seen, never heard, never dreamed."
'Reveal'
full album:
The Lifting 00:00
I've Been High 4:40
All The Way To Reno (You're Gonna Be A Star) 8:06
She Just Wants To Be 12:50
Disappear 18:12
Saturn Return 22:23
Beat A Drum 27:18
Imitation Of Life 31:38
Summer Turns To High 35:35
Chorus And The Ring 39:07
I'll Take The Rain 43:39
Beachball 49:30
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