Brilliant line: Time magazine sums up R.E.M.'s new album

"Dispensing with dirge-y ballads and long musical bridges to nowhere, Accelerate clocks in at a frenzied 35 minutes, with five of the 11 tracks zooming by in under-3-min., leave-the-room-and-you-missed-it blurs. It sounds less like a recent R.E.M. album than three men fleeing the scene of a recent R.E.M. album."
-Josh Tyrangiel, writing in the April 7 edition of Time