Label: Craft
Reissued 10/29/2021, Originally released 1996
CD: Celebrating the 25th anniversary of R.E.M.’s tenth studio album, New Adventures in Hi-Fi. This expanded collection offers the original album newly remastered, along with 13 B-sides and rarities. The 2-CD edition also includes an exclusive 24” x 24” pull-out poster and four collectible postcards, as well as a booklet featuring archival photographs and new liner notes with reflections from the band, Patti Smith, Thom Yorke, Scott Litt and more.
LP: This special pressing—replicating the original gatefold package—offers the newly remastered album across 2-LPs, pressed on 180-gram vinyl, with lacquers cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio. The platinum-selling album features the singles “Bittersweet Me,” “Electrolite,” and “E-Bow the Letter.”
Track listing:
- How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us
- The Wake-Up Bomb
- New Test Leper
- Undertow
- E-Bow the Letter
- Leave
- Departure
- Bittersweet Me
- Be Mine
- Binky the Doormat
- Zither
- So Fast, So Numb
- Low Desert
- Electrolite