NEWS: R.E.M Work on "Old School" Album

The Posies' frontman Ken Stringfellow has revealed that REM are in the process of recording an "old school"-style album.

Stringfellow - who has toured and worked with the Georgia band - recently met up with bassist Mike Mills in his current home city of Paris, where he heard the rough recordings of the proposed follow-up to 2008's 'Accelerate' that according to the singer/guitarist "It's sounding really great, very old school". 

"The first track had vocals which were mixed super low which I couldn't understand and I was like, 'Yes, a return to form.' Mike was on about pushing the vocals up and I was like, 'No, don't do it.'"

Stringfellow later added: "What's cool about classic REM is that you have an electric and acoustic guitar coming along like The Byrds". "There's a lot of that in there, there's some piano songs too, but I didn't hear a lot of crazy, freaky keyboards and vintage drum machines in there like the period when I was with them."

The R.E.M album is expected to be released next year.