Music

January, 1993

Charles M. YoungEver since Radio Free Europe, for which I had unalloyed love back in 1983, my love for R.E.M. has been decidedly alloyed by...I don't even know. Maybe I found them a tad too delicate to rock and roll. And I just didn't like them, OK? Upon release of their latest album, Automatic for the People (Warner), I am forced to change my mind. I suddenly like them again a whole lot. Here their minor-key Appalachian song structures, starting spare and building in lush crescendos with the st...