This is great news, because it is great for artists to have all the tools available to use. An oil painting can look fantastic, but I would like the option of water-colours, oil charcoal as well.

I do like "Blood on the Leaves", but I understand the general sentiment.

Yeezus is, for the amazing and for the ill, the closest we've come to finding out what's going on in Kanye's head. And we still don't have many answers for it…

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is an album that I spent too many words trying to explain why it's great when you all already knew that…

With 808's and Heartbreak, Kanye turned the recent tragedies of his life into a style that so many hip-hop and R&B artists imitate today…

Two Yeezy reviews (sorry the first is late):

Kanye West's The College Dropout was a sign of the changing tides in rap and is still one of its greatest debuts. Even many of its flaws are testament to its ambition…

Good Kid, M.A.A.D City earned Kendrick Lamar his "King" title with little competition…

Section.80 has one or two duds, but is still a great work that the majority of artists would be proud to call their best. For Kendrick Lamar, it's his third best..

He might be on top of the world now, but with (O)verly (D)edicated in 2010 Kendrick Lamar was a young rapper in the mixtape game…

R.E.M. encapsulate their career with Collapse into Now, an album that both references and contemplates their place in the rock pantheon. Oh, with some bright, embracing and just plain great tunes to depart with…

R.E.M's Accelerate seems to have suffered injuries from the peak of the Loudness War. Despite that, this is the band's best collection of songs in at least a decade…

Around the Sun is an album by R.E.M…

After the darkness in R.E.M's last four albums, Reveal is a welcome sunny relief. But it too often confuses being bright with being light…

Danke!

I've tried come into these albums relatively fresh, so I will admit haven't given Accelerate a thorough look yet. Of all the late period R.E.M records I've checked out though, that is definitely the one I've liked hearing the most.

Maybe I am…We shall see!

Length and track listing aside, I would be willing to call Up the last great R.E.M. record…

Before R.E.M. would sputter out as a foursome they would make New Adventures in Hi-Fi, their most sprawling record and possibly their most ambitious…

With Monster, R.E.M. made a record with some great songs about identity and obsession and sex and obsession and identity and sex and obsession and identity and obsession and sex and identity… (Sorry for the delay)