Listen to new REM number

The band from Athens, Georgia begin the New Year by treating fans to another new track from their forthcoming album Collapse Into Now.

'Oh My Heart' (handily complete with lyrics):

Michael Stipe had this to say of the track:

"It’s a very quiet and very meditative song dedicated to New Orleans — about New Orleans. Jacknife [Lee] is great as a producer, because he saw that we were struggling with what is a very quiet song. We were standing really far away from each other in the room, and it was hard not only to actually physically hear each other, but it felt dispersed. He brought us into the middle, and instantly, of course, the song worked."

Stipe & co's fifteenth album Collapse Into Now is due out on March 7 - here's a two minute teaser and album opener 'Discoverer' to further whet your appetite until then.

The album, recorded in Berlin, New York and Nashville with Jacknife Lee on production duties, features guest vocals from Eddie Vedder, Peaches and Patti Smith among others.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Discoverer
2. All the Best
3. Uberlin
4. Oh My Heart
5. It Happened Today (featuring Eddie Vedder)
6.‘Every Day Is Yours to Win
7. Mine Smell Like Honey
8. Walk It Back
9. Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter (featuring Peaches and Lenny Kaye)
10. That Someone Is You
11. Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I
12. Blue (featuring Patti Smith)