Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground - Reissued on high quality180 gram virgin vinyl!
Inherent in youth is a kinetic energy, vitality and passion that has the potential to move masses. Every new generation picks a voice that will offer them something to identify with -- something to prove to them that the crazy things theyre feeling and the anger that theyre having and the disillusionment thats plaguing them is normal. Bright Eyes Conor Oberst is that voice.
Born 1980 in Omaha and recording since he was 13, Conor Oberst owns a voice that quakes with the tumultuous energy that only youth can produce. Oberst's incredible ability to tell stories with his songs and paint intricate pictures with his words is reminiscent, without being derivative, of mid-period Dylan. And his gift for composing and delivering those songs is pure poetry. As the mastermind behind the acclaimed Bright Eyes collective, Obersts genius is found in a pretense-free, orchestral approach to songwriting. His most recent, most musically vigorous and rockin project, Desaparecidos, toured the nation and released Read Music/Speak Spanish to enormous amounts of critical acclaim.
Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground is the latest, most significant release from Oberst and the notable cast of Bright Eyes players. Obersts mainstay production team of Mike Mogis and Andy Lemaster (Now Its Overhead) lend performances on the record along with other noteworthy Omaha musicians including Todd and Clark Baechle (The Faint), Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor (Azure Ray), Matt Maginn and Clint Schnase (Cursive), and Jiha Lee (The Good Life).
The Bright Eyes tour in spring of 2002 saw Oberst take the stage in a powder blue suit, surrounded by six beautiful female musicians, his sense of bona fide showmanship entrancing his audience. At his two sold-out Bowery Ballroom performances in New York City, you could have heard a pin drop between songs as hundreds of fans and new converts fell under his delicate spell -- proof of Obersts virtuosity as the consummate performer.
Selections:
1. The Big Picture
2. Method Acting
3. False Advertising
4. You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.
5. Lover I Don't Have to Love
6. Bowl Of Oranges
7. Don't Know When But A Day Is Gonna Come
8. Nothing Get's Crossed Out
9. Make War
10. Waste of Paint
11. From A Balance Beam
12. Laura Laurent
13. Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and To Be Loved)
Inherent in youth is a kinetic energy, vitality and passion that has the potential to move masses. Every new generation picks a voice that will offer them something to identify with -- something to prove to them that the crazy things theyre feeling and the anger that theyre having and the disillusionment thats plaguing them is normal. Bright Eyes Conor Oberst is that voice.
Born 1980 in Omaha and recording since he was 13, Conor Oberst owns a voice that quakes with the tumultuous energy that only youth can produce. Oberst's incredible ability to tell stories with his songs and paint intricate pictures with his words is reminiscent, without being derivative, of mid-period Dylan. And his gift for composing and delivering those songs is pure poetry. As the mastermind behind the acclaimed Bright Eyes collective, Obersts genius is found in a pretense-free, orchestral approach to songwriting. His most recent, most musically vigorous and rockin project, Desaparecidos, toured the nation and released Read Music/Speak Spanish to enormous amounts of critical acclaim.
Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground is the latest, most significant release from Oberst and the notable cast of Bright Eyes players. Obersts mainstay production team of Mike Mogis and Andy Lemaster (Now Its Overhead) lend performances on the record along with other noteworthy Omaha musicians including Todd and Clark Baechle (The Faint), Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor (Azure Ray), Matt Maginn and Clint Schnase (Cursive), and Jiha Lee (The Good Life).
The Bright Eyes tour in spring of 2002 saw Oberst take the stage in a powder blue suit, surrounded by six beautiful female musicians, his sense of bona fide showmanship entrancing his audience. At his two sold-out Bowery Ballroom performances in New York City, you could have heard a pin drop between songs as hundreds of fans and new converts fell under his delicate spell -- proof of Obersts virtuosity as the consummate performer.
Selections:
1. The Big Picture
2. Method Acting
3. False Advertising
4. You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.
5. Lover I Don't Have to Love
6. Bowl Of Oranges
7. Don't Know When But A Day Is Gonna Come
8. Nothing Get's Crossed Out
9. Make War
10. Waste of Paint
11. From A Balance Beam
12. Laura Laurent
13. Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and To Be Loved)
