If artists are well-advised never to read their reviews, from those reviews the rest of us stand to benefit—in theory. Often speechless about the music that I love, and wanting to acquire some useful vocabulary, I took my spade to the lush fields of criticism grown up around R.E.M.’s 1998 album Up, which was recently re-released for it…
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