Collapse Into Now debuted at No.5 in the US Billboard 200 and also peaked at No.5 in the UK Top 40, where the record went on to go silver. However, while the band conducted a series of promotional interviews, they remained true to their word about not touring the record. On 11 September, six months to the day of the LP’s release, R.E.M. officially announced their amicable split, with Mike Mills telling Rolling Stone, “There’s no disharmony here, no falling-outs, no lawyers squaring-off. We’ve made this decision amicably and with each other’s best interests at heart. The time just feels right. The band’s legacy In a bouncy and bassy recreation of Western music, “All the Way to Reno (You’re Gonna Be a Star)” features the addition of bubbly synthesizers and a delightful guitar riff to close out the verses. “You know what you are / You’re gonna be a star”, says Michael Stipe. Whether it’s genuine or sarcastic, he slams you in the face with his quiet sincerity. Christgau, Robert (June 26, 2001). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice . Retrieved August 31, 2015. R.E.M./Athens, L.L.C. Under exclusive license to Craft Recordings. Manufactured and distributed by Concord, 10 Lea Avenue, Suite 300, Nashville, TN 37210. The meticulous attention to detail that R.E.M. deployed on Up and Reveal would ultimately sound labored over by the time of 2004's Around the Sun. Following a solid-but-unremarkable two-album course correction, the band would break up in 2011.

Accompanied By – Glen Brady, Jamie Candiloro, Joey Waronker, John Keane, Ken Stringfellow, Scott McCaughey Classement Albums– année 2001" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Archived from the original on 2012-01-25 . Retrieved 2012-01-25.australian-charts.com R.E.M. - Reveal" (ASP). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 2012-01-25. Technician [Technical Assistance] – Bob Weber, Bob Whittaker, Dan Brewer, Eric Humphries, Kevin Sweeney*, Mark Fitzgerald (2), Mark Mytrowitz, Microwave (9), Octavio Arizala Top 200 Albums of 2001 (based on sales)". Jam!. Archived from the original on 2003-11-06 . Retrieved 2022-03-26. Much has been made of ‘Reveal”s similarities to 1992’s ‘Automatic For the People’ (there are traces of ‘Try Not To Breathe’ in ‘Disappear’, ‘Nightswimming’ in ‘Beat A Drum’), but it’s actually much closer to ‘Up’. Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (R.E.M.; 'Reveal ')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie . Retrieved 2011-02-18.

The ARIA Report: ARIA New Releases Singles – Week Commencing 16th April 2001" (PDF). ARIA. April 16, 2001. p.23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2002-02-20 . Retrieved November 29, 2021. The conclusion and summary of those two albums, even if they wouldn’t rank against R.E.M.’s classics from the ’80s and ’90s, has meant that the period of 1998-2008 is often understood as a kind of wilderness era. A three-legged dog moving listlessly, not defiantly. Accelerate arriving just shy of exactly 10 years after Up creates a concise arc: The journey outwards began here, ending with the band losing their way entirely and eventually needing to rediscover the fire that had driven them in more halcyon days. Up forms an unofficial trilogy with its two successors, 2001’s Reveal and 2004’s Around The Sun. The former is an underrated answer to the suffocated transmissions of Up; Reveal employed plenty of electronics as well, but while aiming for a lush and woozy kind of summer melancholia. Around The Sun continued an era of their career in which the calling cards of their sound were willfully absent, but to diminishing ends: Thanks more to the production and performances than the songs themselves, the dour acoustic-and-atmospheric ballads of Around The Sun seemed to signify an impending adult-contemporary phase for the middle-aged R.E.M., and it has widely been regarded as their nadir.American album certifications – R.E.M. – Reveal". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved 2011-02-18. Imitation of Life” is pure R.E.M.—jangly guitar paired with nearly humming tenor vocals in a near-rewrite of “Losing My Religion”. More than that, lines like “The greatest thing since bread came sliced” and the chorus of “That sugarcane, that tasted good / That’s who you are / That’s what you could / Come on, come on, no one can see you cry” beg to be screamed along to at a concert, with the ferocity typically reserved for college-aged Mountain Goats fans. Slightly different mixes and/or instrumental changes in "I've Been High" and "She Just Wants to Be."

After Up's deeply personal, soul-cleansing exercise, Reveal carries an aura of reconnection with the greater world. As incredible as Up was, the primary impression it leaves is its very insular sound and mood, where you have to dig a little deeper to find the still strongly beating heart of R.E.M.'s songwriting. Reveal, then, presents as much of an 180 turn as Up did. The traditional band roles in more prominent display again again (including an increased presence of session drummers), even if there's still a lingering element of R.E.M. taking cautious steps forward as a three-person incarnation in tune with Up's soundscapes, with programmed drums, frequent synthesizers and emphasised keyboard parts making up much of the album. But as albums, they're night and day - where Up was the melancholy late hours spent awake lost in thought; Reveal is the brand new morning. It's a decidedly more upbeat album, full of harmonies rather than controlled chaos. There's a clear desire for the band to smile again, resulting in a shift in gears to a more traditionally R.E.M.-esque album. Even the opening song welcomes you in: "Good morning! How are you? The weather's fine, the sky is blue..." Radiohead's Thom Yorke was going through a period of extreme depression during the late 1990s, which led to severe stage fright. Around that time, Yorke and Michael Stipe were close friends, and Stipe advised Yorke to tell himself: "I'm not here, this isn't happening" whenever he felt he was losing emotional control. This motto eventually became the chorus of Radiohead's " How to Disappear Completely", from Kid A (2000). In turn, this song supposedly inspired Stipe to write Reveal 's "Disappear". [10] In a 2019 interview with NME, Stipe recounted telephoning Yorke after realizing the shared inspiration, apologizing for supposedly stealing the concept behind their song, only for Yorke to respond by stating that it was more R.E.M.'s song than Radiohead's upon hearing Stipe recite the lyrics to "Disappear". [11] Temporary Music administered in this and all worlds, inclusive, by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. With early comparisons to Automatic for the People, the critical reaction to Reveal was warmer than the notices which greeted Up in 1998, particularly in the UK, where it reached #1 with healthy sales, reaching platinum status there. In the United States, Reveal peaked at No.6 (with 10 weeks on the Billboard 200) and was certified Gold (500,000 units). [27] The album was also certified Gold in Canada (50,000 units) in 2001, [28] and Gold in Germany (150,000 units). [29] Legacy [ edit ] Albums– År 2001". Swedish Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19 . Retrieved 2012-01-25.Technician [Technical Assistance] – Bob Weber, Bob Whittaker, Dan Brewer, Eric Humphries, Kevin Sweeney, Microwave (9), Octavio Arizala Technician [Technical Assistance] – Bob Weber, Bob Whittaker, Dan Brewer, Eric Humphries, Kevin Sweeny, Mark Mytrowitz, Microwave (9), Octavio Arizala

The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (R.E.M.; 'Reveal ')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien. Hilburn, Robert (May 13, 2001). "R.E.M. Recaptures Sound to the Letter". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016 . Retrieved January 22, 2012. Technician [Technical Assistance] – Bob Weber, Bob Whittaker, Dan Brewer, Eric Humphries, Kevin Sweeney*, Mark Mytrowitz, Microwave (9), Octavio Arizala Perez, Arturo. "Top 10 Albums of 2001". Kludge. Archived from the original on July 22, 2004 . Retrieved November 25, 2015.The February 2001 master of Reveal differed from the March 2001 master of the album, which ended up being the final version. Compared to the official, the differences of the Reveal Advance 2001 disc include: