According to Posies frontman, Ken Stringfellow, the new REM LP will be closer in style and production to their earlier material.

Stringfellow has toured and worked with REM in the past and was invited to hear the new recordings at bassist Mike Mills’ Paris apartment saying “What’s cool about classic REM is that you have an electric and acoustic guitar coming along like The Byrds,” Stringfellow said. “There’s a lot of that in there, there’s some piano songs too, but I didn’t hear a lot of crazy, freaky keyboards and vintage drum machines in there like the period when I was with them”

The album will be the follow up to 2008’s ‘Accelerate’, and is expected to be released next year.

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