“R.E.M.'s overlooked and transitional third album from 1985, produced by Joe Boyd, receives the deluxe reissue treatment.”
“They hated making it and have often dismissed it, but R.E.M.’s third record, a dark meditation on the soul of the South, has aged brilliantly. Recorded with producer Joe Boyd, Fables explored a craggy interiority they’d later smooth out; Peter Buck’s moss-hung jangle and Michael Stipe’s benedictive mumbling lent themselves to vague, spellbinding music that […]”
