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R.E.M.: Murmur (Deluxe Edition)

Jude Rogers, The Word, March 2009

IT CAME FROM the South, as all the best American myths do: a strange collection of songs by a group named after a stage in sleep when the heartbeat becomes irregular, and dreaming commences.

Total word count of piece: 695

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