Been looking forward to this even though my expectations aren't especially high. I'll listen tomorrow.

yes!

am I understanding correctly that there is no stream today?

the stream is down until tomorrow

pleasebegoodpleasebegoodpleasebegoodpleasebegoodpleasebegood
(fucking awful album cover)

sweet, should be at least solid

It's streaming on NPR now.

And...up to track 6 so far and very hit and miss. Uberlin and It Happened Today (which might be the happiest song they've ever written) are great, rest are eh.

listening ahora

I am not impressed so far. The lyrics for the most part seem like direct references to Accelerate, which in comparison to their 90's output isn't exactly poetry, and there's a dearth of any good hooks five songs in.

I mean, it's R.E.M. playing it very safe. Some people dig that.

Album is best work in years, no doubt.

Accelerate was good, but R.E.M. has sucked since Document

Accelerate was good, but R.E.M. has sucked since Document

it really was

That is quite an ugly album cover. I actually enjoyed Accelerate, maybe I'll like this.

Accelerate was good, but R.E.M. has sucked since Document

^this
Also this was pretty good.

Laugh all you want, Green sucked, Out of Time sucked even worse, Automatic for the People was boring as fuck, and the Hi-Fi one was trying way too damn hard. Accelerate was alright. R.E.M. was a jangly indie rock band who became alt-pop for the sake of fame, which was ironic because Stipe used to say R.E.M. would never sell out.

Green and Out of Time are slightly overrated but Automatic is a classic.

no

i'll go to bat with anyone over this argument

At least its better than The Resistance...

nah

Dude, Automatic is amazing fuck off.

Dude, Automatic is amazing fuck off. [2]

Stop saying otherwise or I will put you in the ground.

alright so some kid on the internet doesn't like a record and made a generic comment about a band
selling out

its so easy to piss you guys off

the new album is alright, i like roughly half the songs so far but some parts are really bland

You sound pretty pissed off there, champ.

Nah, thats just porch. That's his normal demeanor.
Edit: Otherwise baller wut now?

blaizend is used to analyzing defeater's lyrics in great depth so he thinks he has me all figured out

"Laugh all you want, Green sucked, Out of Time sucked even worse, Automatic for the People was boring as fuck, and the Hi-Fi one was trying way too damn hard. Accelerate was alright. R.E.M. was a jangly indie rock band who became alt-pop for the sake of fame, which was ironic because Stipe used to say R.E.M. would never sell out."

How can one person be so many kinds of wrong? Spouting opinion as fact doesn't make it fact it just makes you wrong. :^/

I haven't analysed any Defeater lyrics. Next.

Oh but you will

no automatic sucks

put me in the ground plz

Wasn't very impressed by this unfortunately. I'd hoped that Accelerate was the beginning of some kind of mini-comeback but this one certainly won't be remembered for long.

I really enjoyed this.

Really enjoyed it at first, but really doesn't have much replay value

really hesitant to give this a list, I haven't really listened to any of their new/bad stuff.

@mallen- I thought the same. Good but didn't grab me enough to come back to it

@rabbit- I'd deff get accelerate

It happened today is leagues above the rest of the album