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REM's best record in a decade? Ever? Achieving critical mass (adulation) ever again seemed to have been beyond REM's reach long before their last album (the feeble Around the Sun), but while you can't teach them new tricks, you should never write off an old dog.

Accelerate reawakens the sleeping McGuinn in the strings of Peter Buck's Rickenbacker as songs like Living Well Is The Best Revenge and Mr Richards chime out of the jingle jangle morning. Recent single, Supernatural Superserious is beefier than they've been in years as well; while the rootsy Until the Day Is Done finds Michael Stipe taking the Bush regime to task.

Some are billing this as REM's finest work since Document 20 years ago. That might be stretching a point, but it is mighty fine.

9:29am Friday 4th April 2008

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