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Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground (CD)

By: Bright Eyes (Artist)

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Bright Eyes Artist Snapshot:

Bright Eyes is the brainchild of Omaha, Nebraska, singer-songwriter Conor Oberst, around whom the band (which has at times consisted solely of Oberst) revolves. Part of an Omaha indie scene centered on the Saddle Creek label, Oberst learned at the feet of Omaha cult hero Simon Joyner, whose post-Dylan songpoetry remains a heavy influence on Bright Eyes. Oberst began recording at a prolific rate while still a teenager, but 2002's LIFTED... broke him through to the mainstream as a fresh new face.

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DISC 1 for Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground (CD) Album By Bright Eyes (Artist)
1   Big Picture, The
2   Method Acting
3   False Advertising
4   You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.
5   Lover I Don't Have To Love
6   Bowl Of Oranges
7   Don't Know When But A Day Is Gonna Come
8   Nothing Gets Crossed Out
9   Make War
10   Waste Of Paint
11   From A Balance Beam
12   Laura Laurent
13   Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love And To Be Loved)
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (12/26/02, p.104) - Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2002"
Rolling Stone (11/14/02, p.86) - "...Best indie-rock record of the year..."
Spin (1/03, p.71) - Ranked #20 on Spin's list of 2002's "Albums of the Year" - "...[Conor] Oberst stages an epic folk-rock musical scripted from his tortured diary."
Q (9/02, p.101) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Intense and good....His gift lies in melding explosive lyrical candor to folk-rock melodies that heave with incongruous levity, like Prince collaborating with Robert Smith."
Uncut (1/03, p.97) - Ranked #69 in Uncut's "100 Best Albums of the Year"
Uncut (10/02, p.101) - 3.5 out of 5 - "...steamhammer profundity and arrestingly magical backdrops..."
Mojo (Publisher) (1/03, p.74) - Ranked #28 in Mojo's "Best Albums of 2002"
Mojo (Publisher) (9/02, p.96) - "It's the most accomplished of the four Bright Eyes albums...a record brave enough to place content over style."
NME (Magazine) (8/10/02, p.32) - 8 out of 10 - "...Confused, touching and idiotically ambitious: hard work that, undoubtedly, repays the effort."

Title Note

Bright Eyes: Conor Oberst (vocals, arranger, guitar, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, organ).

Additional personnel includes: Todd Baechle (vocals); Andy LeMaster (electric guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Maria Taylor (piano, organ, background vocals).

Recorded at Presto Studios, Lincoln, Nebraska between December 2001 & January 2002.

Nebraskan singer/songwriter Conor Oberst began combining troubadourism with emo rock at a ridiculously early age, inspired by the older, more literate Nebraska cult hero Simon Joyner (whose huge influence is somehow always overlooked by journalists). Recording prolifically for local indie label Saddle Creek, Oberst (as Bright Eyes, with or without accompaniment) gradually refined his Neil Young-with-ADD sound over the years. LIFTED OR THE STORY IS IN THE SOIL...is his most ambitious outing to date, featuring keyboards, horns, woodwinds, strings, etc., all laid out in a panoramic manner that stands in marked contrast to Oberst's decidedly lo-fi beginnings. The songwriting seems to have jumped up a notch too, and for what's stil essentially a singer-songwriter record, that doesn't hurt a bit.

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