R.E.M. to Release Reveal 25th Anniversary Edition

Craft Recordings will release Reveal (25th Anniversary Edition) on November 20. The deluxe physical package includes a 32-page hardcover booklet containing archival photographs and new notes by Birgit Fuss. Additionally, The Black Sessions Revealed will be made available independently as a two-LP set. This collection includes a live Imitation of Life performance recorded on May 7, 2001, for Radio France.

Reveal is the 12th studio album by R.E.M., recorded with producer Pat McCarthy in Athens, Vancouver, Dublin, and Miami. Michael Stipe wrote Disappear and I’ve Been High during a cold and damp period in Dublin, and he completed Imitation of Life on a beach. Following Reveal, R.E.M. did not go on a traditional tour, playing a limited number of promotional concerts instead.

The album reached number 1 on the charts in the United Kingdom and reached number 6 on the Billboard 200. Multiple music videos accompanied the record: Garth Jennings created the Imitation of Life video from a 20-second pool party, Michael Moore directed the video for All the Way to Reno, and I’ll Take the Rain served as R.E.M.'s first completely animated video clip.