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Michael Stipe<\/a> has shared another new track from his forthcoming new solo album \u2013 check it out below.<\/p>\n Entitled \u2018Hum Desiderata\u2019, the former R.E.M.<\/a> frontman\u2019s latest offering is a spoken word song based on Max Ehrmann\u2019s poem Desiderata<\/em>. The thought provoking track features additional vocals from artist Elizabeth Hatmaker. You can listen to it on the online sound exhibition platform Joyfully Waiting here<\/a>.<\/p>\n It comes after Stipe spoke about his long-awaited solo album and performed a new track \u2018The Rest Of Ever\u2019 during an appearance on\u00a0The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/i><\/a> in\u00a0April.<\/p>\n At the time the legendary singer said he had been working on his first full solo album for several years<\/a> and he said it has taken \u201clonger than I wanted\u201d<\/a>, but added that he is\u00a0now adding the\u00a0finishing touches\u00a0to the record<\/a>, and has said it should be out in 2026.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the songs is the sound of a tree hearing itself for the first time,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cIt\u2019s this confusing situation. My friend recorded a tree in my backyard in Georgia and played it back to itself, and so it sounds like Daft Punk<\/a>, but\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0putting a sea shanty [in the song].\u201d<\/p>\n