R.E.M. are set to reissue their 1982 debut EP Power City in August to have fun its fortieth anniversary.
The band’s first EP featured 5 songs – “Wolves, Decrease”, “Gardening At Evening”, “Carnival Of Types (Boxcars)”, “1,000,000” and “Stumble” – and was initially launched on August 24, 1982 because the follow-up to their 1981 debut single “Radio Free Europe”.
R.E.M. will now reissue Power City as a CD, image disc and cassette on August 19 through I.R.S./UMe.
It will likely be the primary time that the document can be in the stores as a standalone CD, which is able to function intensive liner notes by the unique producer Mitch Easter.
“Introducing their arpeggiated guitar enjoying, cryptic and sometimes indecipherable lyrics, and radiant choruses that may quickly emerge as signatures of the traditional R.E.M. sound, Power City is the sound of a stressed band, chock stuffed with concepts, working on a post-collegiate price range,” a press launch concerning the EP states.
“Charmingly ragged and refreshingly fast, it established the band indelibly upon impression.”
You may see the tracklist for R.E.M.’s Power City reissue under and pre-order the document right here.
“Wolves, Decrease”
“Gardening At Evening”
“Carnival Of Types (Boxcars)”
“1,000,000”
“Stumble”
