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Conor Oberst by: Conor Oberst List Price: $15.98 Childrens Bookshop Price: $9.99 You Save: $5.99 (37%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0673855034027 Label: Merge Records Manufacturer: Merge Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Merge Records Release Date: August 05, 2008 Studio: Merge Records Sales Rank: 945 MPN: 50340 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: Conor assembled a special band in Mexico for this recording, known amongst themselves and to friends as The Mystic Valley Band. Members include Nate Walcott, Jason Boesel, Macey Taylor, Nik Freitas, and Taylor Hollingsworth. The result is his first solo album in thirteen years, following "Water" (1993), "Here's To Special Treatment" (1994), and "Soundtrack To My Movie" (1995). In that time, he's recorded and performed in Commander Venus, Park Ave., Desaparecidos, and most notably Bright Eyes, his main musical vehicle for the past decade. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Favorite this yearNo doubt he's a great songwriter. Now, with this one, he's become one of the best. This is his best album to date. Lucid, clean, relaxed and as always, well done. Maybe his Highway 61 Revisited. From the opening Cape through I don't want to die in a hospital and on to the end every song is more listenable top to bottom than any of his other albums. Bright Eyes is good stuff but top to bottom too deliberate and self-aware for my tastes. This has a few raggedy edges, plenty of pop ... Read More: Rating: - Good albumI love all the Bright Eyes albums so I bought this and have been happy with it. It didn't immediately grab me the way some of this other work did, but still a good and enjoyable album. Rating:  - Thoughtful and Intimate, but not Flawless"Cape Canaveral" blew me away from the instant I heard it. The opening track epitomizes what modern folk music is about: image-heavy, personal, intimate, and giving us a hint about how Sam Beam would sound if he were darker and more confessional. This song may be worth the price of the CD. I was lying down while I gave this album its first listen-through, and "Lenders in the Temple" made me sit up with a start. The riff and vocalization (not the voice, but the pronunciation and double ... Read More: Rating: - 3.5 Stars.... A detour or a new beginning?Conor Oberst has been recording for many, many years as the essentially one-man band Bright Eyes (surrounded by an ever-changing cast of support personnel). Last we heard from Bright Eyes was last year's excellent "Cassadega" album. Seemingly out of nowhere, Oberst decided to change direction and he went to Mexico to hole up and record a new album under his own name, obviously purposly so. (And let me add my disgust that Amazon is billing this as "Conor Oberst by Bright Eyes", just horrible.) ... Read More: Rating: - As great as I hoped for.Conor Oberst's solo album did not let me down. The 1st 2 tracks as stellar. |
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