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- Summary: The first Bright Eyes album in four years shows Conor Oberst sticking to his winning combination of indie and folk rock.
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- Record Label: Saddle Creek Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock
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I do my best to sleep through the caterwaul The classicists, the posturing avant-garde I bought a gray macaw named him Jules Verne He’ll probably... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 25 out of 35
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Mixed: 9 out of 35
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Negative: 1 out of 35
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Mar 21, 2011The band has pulled off the difficult trick of sculpting a record concerned with weighty, complex themes and made it sound like the breeziest, most effortless thing in the world: a collection of fleet, shimmering pop songs; a master-class in sonic splendour; a bold, beautiful and brilliant reinvention that should surprise as many as it will enthrall.
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Feb 16, 2011Depending on how one looks at it, The People's Key might even be understood as the culmination of a long and troublesome trajectory Bright Eyes began as a teenager's bedroom project in the mid-90s.
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Mar 23, 2011For all their diversity and maturity, these songs couldn't have been written by anyone else, and this welcome return shows that the three years since the last Bright Eyes album have been well spent.
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Feb 14, 2011He manages to be everything at once: folkie and punk, old soul and eternal boy, high-plains drifter and hipster heartthrob.
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Feb 18, 2011The People's Key just doesn't have the emotional pull that others do.
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MojoApr 6, 2011Conor Oberst regroups with the band that made him. [March 2011, p. 94]
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Mar 17, 2011Oberst's voice trembles with the emotion of his youth, only ripped with spite instead of vulnerability. That solipsism has shifted to an even more detached universalism, which leaves little for the listener to connect with.
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Positive: 6 out of 7
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Mixed: 1 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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Feb 23, 2011While not a huge Bright Eyes fan to begin with, I continue to give The Peopleâ
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