For a while now, I’ve thought that R.E.M. are probably the finest exponents of the classic pop song — in all of its guises — of our time; they’re a genuinely great band that just happens to have also achieved huge mainstream success. … there’s a grace and a fluidity to “Electrolite” that’s every bit the match of the band’s earlier days of jangle-pop glory… - 1/04The last song on their best album, in fact “Electrolite” has a jangle of its own, mostly of the piano variety, in keeping with the direction that the band had taken by that stage in its career. R.E.M. have always been able to write songs that are unaccountably catchy and (relatedly) irrationally great, and “Electrolite” stands high among them.
