R.E.M. - "Mine Smell Like Honey"

Directed by Dominic DeJoseph. Mine Smell Like Honey is the US single from R.E.M.'s upcoming record "Collapse Into Now", out March 7/8th worldwide.

R.E.M. are back in a month (March 7th) with their fifteenth studio album 'Collapse Into Now', a Jacknife Lee-produced effort that was recorded in Berlin, Nashville and New Orleans. It's a collaborator-packed affair, with Eddie Vedder, Peaches, Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye among the guests.

According to Spin, the band wanted to create a "more expansive" album after 2008's finely-tuned 'Accelerate', although this first track out the traps is a pretty concise and raucous affair, packing in a classic harmonised R.E.M. chorus. What, exactly, smell like honey though we can only guess. Here's Michael Stipe getting rolled up a staircase.

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'Mine Smell Like Honey' is taken from the forthcoming LP 'Collapse Into Now'. Both are released on March 7th, with the single backed by another album track 'Überlin'.