Bright Eyes | Artist

Bright Eyes is an American indie rock band formed 1995 in Omaha, Nebraska, by singer-songwriter and guitarist Conor Oberst. Oberst is accompanied by multi-instrumentalist and producer Mike Mogis, arranger, composer and trumpet and piano player Nate Walcott, and a rotating line-up of collaborators drawn primarily from Omaha's indie music scene. Oberst was formerly with indie/emo band Commander Venus but left to form his own outfit, focusing more towards an indie/folk sound. The band's first album A Collection of Songs.. (1998) was pretty much as disaster but they followed up the same year with Letting Off the Happiness, which was much more successful. Their third album Fevers and Mirrors (2000) was a big hit with the critics and was placed 170 on Pitchfork Media's best 200 albums of the decade. After the release of their fourth album, 2002's excellent Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground, Bright Eyes became one of the year's most celebrated "new" artists, receiving national attention in The New York Times, The LA Times, Time magazine, Rolling Stone, Blender and Spin. Then followed a couple of mediocre albums before the band came back strong in 2005 with the superb I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning album. The band's most recent album Down in the Weeds Where the World Once Was (2020), although just released at time of writing, is generating rave reviews. Oberst has been variously described as a 'shy, rambling geek', 'pretentious', and 'charismatic frontman full of passion', but there's no denying his musical gift.

Artist Website: thisisbrighteyes.com

Featured Albums: Bright Eyes

Related Artists: Conor Oberst

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