REM have namedropped several celebrity collaborators as they hit the publicity trail for their new album , entitled Collapse In To Now. Due out early next year, the album features contributions from Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, Patti Smith and – wait for it – Peaches!
Speaking to Spin magazine, the band’s Mike Mills promised a record more ‘expansive’ than 2008’s Accelerate. “With Accelerate we were trying to make a point by making the songs as short and as fast as possible.So we wanted this new one to be more expansive. We wanted to put more variety into it and not limit ourselves to any one type of song. There are some really slow, beautiful songs; there are some nice, mid-tempo ones; and then there are three or four rockers.”
The as yet unnamed collaboration with Peaches also intriguingly features guitar work from long time Patti Smith collaborator and Nuggets compiler Lenny Kaye.
