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R.E.M. Post Clips from Sessions for New Album (Video)

8:17 a.m. · November 19, 2009 · by Nick Neyland

The last R.E.M. studio album, Accelerate, is over 18 months old, and Michael Stipe and his band have been back in the studio working on its follow-up. The producer of their last record, Jacknife Lee, in on board once again, and some video footage from the sessions has surfaced on the official R.E.M. website.

The brief clips don’t offer a great deal of insight into the sessions, although a heavily bearded Stipe does feature, and the other band members can be seen jamming and loosely pulling together new songs. The clips look like they were shot on Stipe's iPhone, so the quality is suitably lo-fi.