R.E.M. recorded the majority of their twelfth album Reveal (2001) in Canada and Ireland from May to October 2000. Reveal shared the “lugubrious pace” of Up , and featured drumming by Joey Waronker, as well as contributions by Scott McCaughey (a co-founder of the band the Minus 5 with Buck), and Ken Stringfellow (founder of the Posies ). Global sales of the album were over four million, but in the United States Reveal sold about the same number of copies as Up . The album was led by the single ” Imitation of Life “, which reached number six in the UK. Writing for Rock’s Backpages , The Rev. Al Friston described the album as “loaded with golden loveliness at every twist and turn”, in comparison to the group’s “essentially unconvincing work on New Adventures in Hi-Fi and Up “. Similarly, Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone called Reveal “a spiritual renewal rooted in a musical one” and praised its “ceaselessly astonishing beauty”.
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