Friday, June 19, 2020

50 Days of R.E.M. # 45 Disturbance at the Heron House


Buried deep in the first side of Document, Disturbance at the Heron House finds R.E.M. doing what they'd done before in a slightly different way. A track that both looks backwards and forwards it highlights the bands political conciousness and gift for melody and Rock dynamics. It's lyrical concerns are obscure, though apparently there's a nod to George Orwell and Animal Farm, but their essential murkiness and obscurism is offset by a willingness to frame it in a slightly more accessible production. It looks forward to Ignoreland and backwards to Begin the Begin, Little America and Moral Kiosk.

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