R.E.M. Start Work On New Album

R.E.M. have started writing new songs for their as yet untitled fifteenth album. Guitarist Peter Buck and bassist Mike Mills are currently in a studio with Decemberists producer Tucker Martine in Portland, Oregon.

Peter Buck told Pitchfork:

“Mike and I write all the time, and I had a bunch of songs we were going over during soundcheck on the last tour… We never do demos; we just go in and record. And I was like ‘Well, I have a lot of equipment in Portland; we can do it there’. It just seemed like the right thing to do”.

This record, I want it to be broader; I think Michael is into that. So there are some really pretty acoustic things, some really total noisy rock, and some kind of poppy stuff. It runs the gamut”.

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