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BillboardIt's a pleasant enough, if uneven work. [14 Apr 2007]
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On Cassadaga Bright Eyes sounds like John Mayer.
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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.
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Oberst's political criticism is most effective when he's humble and straightforward, yet his overwrought poetics seem laughable, childish and blinkered when applied to world affairs.
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The political lyrics are the most troublesome.
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'Cassadaga' is much less of a draining emotional journey for both chief player and listener alike than Bright Eyes previous work.
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Cassadaga falters in the same way I’m Wide Awake did: by trying to present his views as universal, it just exposes how Conor Oberst can’t handle the Truth.
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He is clearly searching for a more mature style. But the musical and rhetorical convolutions of “Cassadaga” are no substitute, yet, for the way he used to blurt things out. [9 Apr 2007]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 88 out of 116
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Mixed: 18 out of 116
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Negative: 10 out of 116
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Jan 28, 2021
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SteveFeb 11, 2008
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darrylfJul 28, 2007best album of this year so far