On June 23rd, alternative icons R.E.M. will release a “deluxe edition” of their second studio album, Reckoning. Pitchfork Media writes:
Like last year’s deluxe treatment of R.E.M.’s debut, Murmur, the deluxe Reckoning is a two-disc set. The second disc contains a live show taped at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago on July 7, 1984 and aired on Chicago radio station WXRT. The Aragon show features eight Reckoning songs, old songs “Gardening at Night” from Chronic Town and “Radio Free Europe,” “9-9″ and “Sitting Still” from Murmur, and new songs “Driver 8″ and “Hyena”, which would show up on Fables of the Reconstruction and Lifes Rich Pageant, respectively.
I’m a big fan of quality album reissues. This sounds like a treat.
Andrew Lindsay is a Glasgow-based singer-songwriter and deputy editor of Stereokill. 
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