Bright Eyes - Conor Oberst
Posted: Jan 29th 2005, 4:09 am
I recently got a chance to fly to Vegas to visit my sister and happened to buy 3 magazines to read on the flight. All three had mention of this particular musician and I couldn't believe the way the critics were stroking this guy. The guy is Conor Oberst and basically he is a singer/songwriter who records with whatever musicians he can find at the time and performs under the name Bright Eyes. He is a 24 year-old from Omaha Nebraska and has evidently been recording since he was like 14. Nebraska is my home state and I had never heard of him. The critics hail him as the second coming of Bob Dylan and hail his lyrics as poetry better than the poets of the day.
The reason he was getting so much press was because he was releasing two albums on tuesday Jan 25. I was intrigued and curious about the home-state hero and decided to buy one of his older albums....Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground. I was hooked. The album is a bit rough, but it was like no other artist recording these days. It is very fresh and uninfluenced by the big record labels. His sound is hard to discribe but if pressed, it is alternative, folk rockish. His lyrics really are pretty amazing. Honest and raw and better than any of the pop crap playing on the radios these days.
I wanted more and ordered his two new albums off of Amazon. Got them today and have listened to them for about 10 hours straight. They are both good, but the better of the two is I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning. The other is Digital Ash in a Digital Urn. Amazon had free Mp3 downloads of a couple songs from each album. One of my favorites is 'Lua' and is pretty representative of his style. Check it out and let me know what you think.
The reason he was getting so much press was because he was releasing two albums on tuesday Jan 25. I was intrigued and curious about the home-state hero and decided to buy one of his older albums....Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground. I was hooked. The album is a bit rough, but it was like no other artist recording these days. It is very fresh and uninfluenced by the big record labels. His sound is hard to discribe but if pressed, it is alternative, folk rockish. His lyrics really are pretty amazing. Honest and raw and better than any of the pop crap playing on the radios these days.
I wanted more and ordered his two new albums off of Amazon. Got them today and have listened to them for about 10 hours straight. They are both good, but the better of the two is I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning. The other is Digital Ash in a Digital Urn. Amazon had free Mp3 downloads of a couple songs from each album. One of my favorites is 'Lua' and is pretty representative of his style. Check it out and let me know what you think.