R.E.M Name New Album 'Collapse Into Now'

R.E.M’s forthcoming studio album will be called ‘Collapse Into Now’, it’s been revealed.

The group’s manager Bertis Downs confirmed the title of the their fifteenth studio album at In The City in Manchester.

Downs told Billboard the album would be released in Spring 2011 and was the “band’s best record yet”.

The as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2008's 'Accelerate' has been produced Jacknife Lee.

'Accelerate' topped the the UK album chart and debuted at number two on the US Billboard countdown two years ago.

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