R.E.M. – Chronic Town EP – Picture Disc Vinyl Released 19/08/22

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40th anniversary reissue of R.E.M.s debut EP Chronic Town. Featuring such adored classics in the bands repertoire as Gardening At Night, Wolves, Lower and 1,000,000, the five song EP, as Rolling Stone noted, served notice that R.E.M. was an outfit to watch. As a debut release, R.E.M.s Chronic Town was an anomaly a record that didnt quite fit into the constraints of what was played on the radio. So instead of trying to fit into a genre, R.E.M. helped create their own: College Rock. The follow-up to their breakthrough single Radio Free Europe which was released in 1981, Chronic Town served as the entry point to what would become one of Alternative Rocks biggest bands. One might fancifully say that Chronic Town was the sound of an expedition, ready for anything, setting forth, says Easter fondly about the EP. If R.E.M. Radio Free Europe single was a signpost, the Chronic Town EP was the atlas.