With their early hits album out this week, REM's Mike Mills has been talking to Billboard about preparations for the band's next studio album, the follow up to 2004's 'Around The Sun'.
Mills: "We'll start rehearsals probably some time in the next month or two. I think [guitarist] Peter [Buck] and I probably both have a tonne of stuff, but we haven't sat down and played it for each other yet. I don't think in terms of directions, but I think this next record might have a little more rock to it. I like 'Around the Sun', but I think, honestly, it turned out a little slower than we intended for it to, just in terms of the overall speed of songs."