Automatic for the People

Review

(Warner Bros.)
Release Date: 10/06/1992 12:00

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No one does dreamlike as well as R.E.M., so no wonder one of their biggest CDs is also their dreamiest. Here, they pair melancholic folk-rock apparitions with hopeful strings: “Everybody Hurts” longs for community; the piano ballad “Nightswimming” hungers for sex and safety; “Man on the Moon” looks back to simpler times without self pity or irony. It’s the R.E.M. to keep under the pillow for your next dark night of the soul.

Download: “Man on the Moon,” “Try Not to Breathe,” “Ignoreland”

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