Bright Eyes: The People's Key

"[Conor] Oberst is about to release The People’s Key, the first Bright Eyes album since 2007’s Cassadaga, a swirling operatic opus that was (mostly) critically admired for being as opulent and baroque as his early work was spare and delicate. ... The new album is rich with slick, glitzy keyboards courtesy of Nate Walcott, the third member of Bright Eyes. 'To me, this is not an eighties record, but that’s definitely the palette of sounds we’re drawing from,' says Oberst, who worked with the band to untangle and simplify their sound. ... 'The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion,' he says. 'The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you’re going to find out you’re wrong—that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.' Fans will recognize another familiar thread in The People’s Key, that of living in a world that can at times be horrifying" (Lizzy Goodman, "The Ballad of Conor Oberst," New York, 2/14/11).
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