R.E.M. launches We Are Hope Despite The Times digital compilation encouraging listeners to vote in US election

The compilation is aimed toward encouraging their listeners to remain knowledgeable, engaged, and vote throughout this important election season.

The compilation title, We Are Hope Regardless of The Instances, is drawn from the lyric, “We’re younger regardless of the years / We’re concern, we’re hope regardless of the instances” from the band’s music “These Days” (from R.E.M.’s 1986 studio album, Lifes Wealthy Pageant). The gathering options 18 politically scary songs together with “Welcome to the Occupation,” “Swan Swan H,” “Fall on Me,” “World Chief Fake,” and “Its the Finish of the World As We Know It (And I Really feel Fantastic).

With We Are Hope Regardless of The Instances, the band continues to encourage participation within the democratic course of, urging followers to register to vote, make their voices heard, and play an energetic function in shaping the long run. Followers can get extra data on deadlines, register to vote, or replace their registration by visiting vote.gov or headcount.org.

Tracklist:

1. Flip You Inside-Out
2. Pop Music ’89
3. These Days
4. I Imagine
5. Fall on Me
6. Welcome to the Occupation
7. World Chief Fake
8. Drive
9. Start The Start
10. Best Worksong
11. Exhuming McCarthy
12. Only a Contact
13. Cuyahoga
14. Disturbance At The Heron Home
15. Swan Swan H
16. Ignoreland
17. Stand
18. Its the Finish of the World As We Know It (And I Really feel Fantastic)