R.E.M - Chronic Town - New Ltd Edition Picture Disc
Format: New Ltd Edition Picture Disc Label: UMC/Polydor Cat. No. 4573643 Barcode: 0602445736430 Released: 19/08/2022
Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, R.E.M.’s debut EP CHRONIC TOWN will be released as a limited edition picture disc.
Featuring such adored classics in the band’s 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 didn’t 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 Rock’s 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.”