Bright Eyes

The fifth album from Conor Oberst, the self-conscious and tortured savant who records under the Bright Eyes rubric. Here he creates an exquisite and excruciating tone poem about life, unraveling relationships and doomed belief. Anxious yet perfect guitar tones underpin the thin line between love and hate that the musician explores without reservation. A career high.

Nobody can skewer young love with the gauche emotion, mordant wit or rude detail of
Conor Oberst. The Bright Eyes maestro is only twenty-four, but he's broken a career's
worth of hearts, strumming his acoustic guitar and chronicling his romantic torments in
indie-rock gems such as "Going for the Gold." He commands a cult of hot, sullen Conorites
who would gladly crawl through broken glass to lick his plectrum. And though h... More >

Noised these up because he's nervous about them ("Arc of Time," "Hit the Switch"). (Grade - *)