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R.E.M.’s New Sound Delivers Its Politics Loud And Clear

Sunday, November 16th, 1986

11.16.86
Orlando Sentinel
R.E.M. may be the darling of pop music critics, and of a sizable and growing cult of fans, but even those devotees have lent their voices to one universal complaint: You can’t discern the lyrics.
For the past four years, three albums and an EP, Michael Stipe’s vocals have been buried underneath layers of Pete [...]