REM Enlist Eddie Vedder For New Album
Band\'s fifteenth studio album features a few guest appearances
REM have revealed that Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder makes a guest appearance on their forthcoming studio album.
In an interview with Spin.com the band’s Mike Mills revealed that they had approached the style of the new album differently to their previous studio effort, 2008’s Accelerate.
"With 'Accelerate' we were trying to make a point by making the songs as short and as fast as possible," multi-instrumentalist Mills told Spin.com. "So we wanted this new one to be more expansive."
"We wanted to put more variety into it and not limit ourselves to any one type of song," he continued. "There are some really slow, beautiful songs; there are some nice, mid-tempo ones; and then there are three or four rockers."
Mills revealed that the album features guest appearances from punk-poet Patti Smith on a song called ‘Blue’ and Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder on a song called ‘It Happened Today.’
The band’s 15th studio album is entitled Collapse Into Now and will be released early in 2011. It was recorded in New Orleans, Berlin and Nashville and will once again be produced by Jacknife Lee.