R.E.M. | Chronic Town Ep | Blue Vinyl LP

40th anniversary reissue of R.E.M.\u2019s debut EP Chronic Town. Featuring such adored classics in the band\u2019s repertoire as \u201CGardening At Night\u201D, \u201CWolves, Lower\u201D and \u201C1,000,000,\u201D the five song EP, as Rolling Stone noted, \u201Cserved notice that R.E.M. Was an outfit to watch.\u201D As a debut release, R.E.M.\u2019s Chronic Town was an anomaly\u2026 a record that didn\u2019t quite fit into the constraints of what was played on the radio. So instead of trying to fit into a genre, R.E.M. Helped create their own: College Rock. The follow-up to their breakthrough single \u201CRadio Free Europe\u201D which was released in 1981, Chronic Town served as the entry point to what would become one of Alternative Rock\u2019s biggest bands. \u201COne might fancifully say that Chronic Town was the sound of an expedition, ready for anything, setting forth,\u201D says Easter fondly about the EP. \u201CIf R.E.M. \u2018Radio Free Europe\u2019 single was a signpost, theD