On the 25th Anniversary of one R.E.M.’s most haunting albums Fables of the Reconstruction, the band has announced that the recording process of their new album is complete.
The new album was recorded at Hansa Studios in Berlin, Germany with Jacknife Lee. The album, which has yet to be titled, is set to be mixed this fall and be released Spring of 2011.
25 years ago R.E.M. hadn’t really made it when they released Fables of the Reconstruction. They were well on their way, but a bad album might have broken them. Fables was stylistically different than anything R.E.M. had ever done, and for the first time they went through the recording process away from Athens and into an underground studio in England. What they came up with is the lo-fi sounding Fables of the Reconstruction, an album that will always stand out as being different and the right thing. Different than anything that was coming out and different than anything else in their catalog. They also said at the time that they would never be a “singles” band. I guess some things do change.
