Former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe is applying the final touches to his debut solo album, and it promises to be an interesting listen.
Stipe has been working on the record for several years, and in a recent interview with The Times, he admitted that completing the collection has "taken longer than I wanted".
"Covid didn’t help," he acknowledged, "but I’m finishing it. When the band split, I just needed a break. I took five years but I got pulled back into music. It’s been a struggle. That’s the main thing. I want it to be great, but I’ve got the pressure of having been in REM and it’s a high bar, because I want this to be as good as that, and that’s near impossible. So it’s fucking exciting but also terrifying, and I’m doing the music for the first time too, and I think I’m good at it but not great."
