Bright Eyes - The People's Key (Orange Vinyl LP)

Bright Eyes - The People's Key (Orange Vinyl LP)One of the things that struck Oberst as he and the band went through twenty plus years of music is that he may in fact have been writing the same song this whole time. Not sonically, of course, but conceptually. This last wave contains, in Noise Floor, early Bright Eyes songs so raw Oberst never even released them back in the day, as well as, in Cassadaga and The People's Key, the band's most polished and sophisticated albums. When Bright Eyes toured

Of an icon

they realised that they had a similar history in the New Age subculture of the 1980s: a world of meditation

while picking apart the charlatan language

Be My Baby (feat

with just his guitar and a microphone

* Tracklisting differs on 2LP vinyl edition

Over ten years in the making

pointed to an artist completely at ease in his work

Across fourteen sun-bleached songs - written solo or with his brother Kody - Ruban draws from the rich traditions of West Coast AOR

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On the opening track

miles of desert or acres of sprawling grassland