As previously reported, R.E.
M. will record the album in the via Warner Bros.
"The way we normally work is, (guitarist) Peter (Buck) and I are overproductive," bassist Mike Mills told Billboard induction.
"We tend to write a lot of music. (Vocalist) Michael (Stipe) requires a little more time to focus on it. Musically, I'd say we're pretty far along.
Lyrically, we're probably just beginning."
On the heels of 2004's "Around the Sun," which offered a dearth of rock songs, Mills says R.E.
M. is "certainly aiming this time around. "The trouble with making records is that you can plan all you want.
But what we find is that the records tend to take on a life of their own, so it could go in any direction."
R.E.
M.'s new single, a cover of John Lennon's "#9 Dream," from the Darfur benefit album "Instant Karma." The track he retired from the band in 1997.
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