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- Summary: Conor Oberst & co. branch out into country and orchestral pop on their latest 13-track set, which finds them joined by guests Gillian Welch, Janet Weiss, and M. Ward.
- Record Label: Saddle Creek
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Top Track
Four Winds | |
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Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe There's people always dying trying to keep them alive There are bodies... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 27 out of 35
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Mixed: 8 out of 35
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Negative: 0 out of 35
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The music doesn't always live up to the demands of the journey, but Oberst's trembling, vulnerable voice carries through to a rewarding conclusion.
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Musically, it's his richest album yet, full of Nashville twang and Branson brassiness. And lyrically, the itinerant-traveler conceit is intriguing, even though its sweeping scope lacks the almost masochistically intimate power of earlier material.
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One hopes that the next LP will pack a little less filler, and Bright Eyes will drop a 40-minute work as tight as their best four-minute works.
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Fantastic lyrical concepts, an improved musicianship and the addition of an orchestra make Cassadaga easily the most enjoyable Bright Eyes album as a whole.
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A restless, questing work.
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It isn't that Cassadaga is necessarily bad, but where I'm Wide Awake was compact and graceful, the new record lumbers, belaboring Conor Oberst's anguish about the state of the world.
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"Cassadaga" is an insular, self-referential album that strives for depth and profundity and sounds instead like a high-school poetry reading, full of rhyming-dictionary couplets and banal pronouncements about life.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 41 out of 62
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Mixed: 14 out of 62
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Negative: 7 out of 62
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darrylfJul 28, 2007best album of this year so far
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stansApr 2, 2007Their best yet!
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jeremycApr 14, 2007
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LadyB.Apr 10, 2007Mmm ya, Bright Eyes are gooooooooood.
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littledutchboyMay 13, 2007
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MarciaLApr 11, 2007I expected more....
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Jan 28, 2021
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