Bright Eyes – “I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (2022 Re-Issue)” (Released 25th November 2022)

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//Dead Oceans//

£22.99 – 1xLP, Very Limited Edition Vinyl

Re-issue of the 2005 album by Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst)

Bright Eyes had officially broken through. It was a heady, exciting time, but also fraught and tense, both because of the band’s careening new fame, and because of the state of the world. When Bright Eyes made their Tonight Show debut in 2006, they chose to perform none of their shiny new hits, instead delivering a searing, harrowing rendition of their caustic anti-Bush anthem, “When The President Talks To God.”

These days, Oberst is still amusing himself by messing with the extremes Bright Eyes baked into this era’s releases, extremes that reflected the polar, with-us-or-against-us, fractious feel of the times. The reworked Digital Ash tracks, originally so clean and elegant, are, on the companion EP, full of “harmonica and mandolins – folky vibes,” Oberst says. While the analogue sweetness of the Wide Awake songs have been put through a detached nihilism filter.

Tracklisting:

At the bottom of everything
We are nowhere and it’s now
Old soul song (for the new world order)
Lua
Train under water
First day of my life
Another travelin’ song
Land locked blues
Poison oak
Road to joy