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"... the fourteenth studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M. The vinyl version consists of two LPs each running at 45 RPM, and contains the full album on CD. Produced with Jacknife Lee, Accelerate is intended as a departure from the 2004 album Around the Sun. The music they wrote was faster and more aggressive than other material they had written in years.[4] Mills suggested the band work out its new songs in a live setting before recording them, as it had done in its early years. At the urging of The Edge of U2, R.E.M. chose to record the album with producer Jacknife Lee. Following the Olympia Theatre residency, R.E.M. scheduled three-week recording sessions in three different cities in order to keep its focus. The tight recording schedule prevented Stipe from spending too much time working on his lyrics and vocal parts. Accelerate debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with first week sales of 115,000 copies,[10] and became the band's eighth album to top the British album charts.[11] The album sold nearly 300,000 copies worldwide in its first week and sold roughly 660,000 copies worldwide in its first month according to the United World Chart. Accelerate has been generally well-received by critics, Rolling Stone gave the album four out of five stars, with critic David Fricke praising the group's aggressive sound, writing, "Stipe has not sounded this viscerally engaged in his singing and poetically lethal in his writing since the twilight of the Reagan administration." NME, similarly applauding the group's return to their previous sound, gave Accelerate an eight out of ten rating, and concluded, "Accelerate is by some considerable distance R.E.M.'s best and most cohesive album since [former drummer] Bill Berry left, and crucially echoes a time when they made their best music, if not necessarily their biggest-selling."
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