Automatic For The People

This record captures the band turning away from the loud, distorted guitars common during the early nineties. Heavy themes of aging and personal loss ground the writing, inspired by the group experiences with health scares and the death of friends.

John Paul Jones provided string arrangements that add a cinematic quality to the production. The result balances the raw vulnerability of tracks such as Everybody Hurts with the imaginative narrative found in Man on the Moon. It creates a deeply reflective mood that favors a measured pace over the standard rock intensity of that era.