R.E.M. announce Fortieth-anniversary reissue of debut EP ‘Persistent City’

Authentic producer Mitch Easter, who wrote the liner notes for the brand new urgent, mentioned in an announcement concerning the thrilling reissue: “One may fancifully say that Persistent City was the sound of an expedition, prepared for something, setting forth. If R.E.M.’s ‘Radio Free Europe’ single was a signpost, the Persistent City EP was the atlas.”

During the last two years, R.E.M. have additionally shared Twenty fifth-anniversary reissues of their albums New Adventures in Hello-Fi and Monster. 

In September final 12 months, R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe confirmed that the band would by no means reunite, insisting that their break-up in 2011 was everlasting. 

“We are going to by no means reunite. We determined after we cut up up that that will simply be actually cheesy and doubtless money-grabbing, which is perhaps the impetus for lots of bands to get again collectively. We don’t really want that, and I’m actually completely satisfied that we simply have the legacy of the 32 years of labor that now we have,” he informed All Of It.

Following the interview, the band re-posted the message they initially despatched out after they broke up on September twenty first, 2011, to their Instagram web page.

“To our Followers and Pals: As R.E.M., and as lifelong buddies and co-conspirators, now we have determined to name it a day as a band. We stroll away with an excellent sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment in any respect now we have completed,” the message learn. “To anybody who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening.”

Hearken to the Persistent City EP beneath.