Bright Eyes

Editor's Review:

Bright Eyes mastermind Conor Oberst may be the most earnest, heartfelt songwriter this country has (n)ever known. Lifted plays out like a diary as Conor's impassioned wavering voice imparts personal tales of family life and struggles with drugs, alcohol and sexual relationships. The words are touchingly personal, yet not embarrassingly blatant. This album is intriguing on many levels; often, songs use odd recording ambiences and microphone locations and flow jaggedly between field recordings and noise collage intermissions. Orchestral arrangements, rustic and haunting acoustic guitars, pocket-suave drumming, bawdy bar singing, beautiful melodies about ugly and difficult subjects and manic discourse leave the listener reeling from an overload of information, yet ready for another go at the 73-minute CD. And "Lover I Don't Have To Love" demands to be repeated over and over again.
- Maurice S. Teilmann
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Record Label Saddle Creek Released August 2002

Tracks The Big Picture Method Acting False Advertisement You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. Lover I Don't Have To Love Bowl Of Oranges Don't Know When But a Day is Gonna Come Nothing Gets Crossed Out Make War Waste of Paint From A balance Beam Laura Laurent Let's Not Shit Ourselves (to Love and to Be Loved)

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