R.E.M. - Chronic Town (40th Anniversary)

Released 19th August 2022.

Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, R.E.M.s debut EP CHRONIC TOWN will be released for the first time ever as a standalone CD with extensive liner notes by the original producer Mitch Easter (Lets Active). It will be released in three different formats: CD, Picture Disc, and Cassette on August 19, 2022 via I.R.S./UMe

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 Rock