Not long after we launched this podcast, we got an email from Matt Sledge, suggesting that if we ever wanted to discuss R.E.M.'s New Adventures in Hi-Fi, he'd love to be the one to sit in with us. So here we are, Jeff, Matt and Matt, discussing the tenth studio album from the Athens band.
It's arguably one of the most interesting records in their catalog in the sense that it found the group taking a really intriguing journey in song. The liner notes of the 2021 expanded reissue pull the curtain back a bit to add some more details to what we already knew about the innovative approach they took to capturing the songs on the album. In short, it was every bit of the adventure that was advertised in the album title and then some.
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