Bright Eyes - The People's Key
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Artist: Bright EyesEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2011-02-15
Music Label: Saddle Creek
Soundtracks:
- Firewall
- Shell Games
- Jejune Stars
- Approximate Sunlight
- Haile Selassie
- A Machine Spiritual (In the People's Key)
- Triple Spiral
- Beginner's Mind
- Ladder Song
- One For You, One For Me
Music reviews of The People's Key
Music Review: Don't judge Bright Eyes based on the occasional misstep...
Rating: 1 Stars
Either I'm too old and jaded, or this is a terrible album. Let me preface this by saying I have been a Bright Eyes fan for close to ten years now, and have seen Bright Eyes live and in concert twice. I'm probably a bit older than the average Bright Eyes fan, and often felt like an old man at the two shows I saw Bright Eyes/Conor Oberst at, once in Tempe, AZ, and once in San Francisco, but this new album just isn't doing it for me. I got into Bright Eyes by a chance encounter in 2002, when a friend burned a copy of Lifted for me. I listened to the album for weeks, couldn't extract it from my CD player in the car. After that, I went back and bought the older stuff, and fell in love with the various and beautiful music of Fevers & Mirrors, I'm Wide Awake, Digital Ash, and Noise Floor. But the album that really blew me away was Cassadaga. From the opening spiritual monologue to the final song, the album was tight, and had a clear message, namely, the world is a vast, beautiful, ugly, and mysterious place, and Bright Eyes had a mystical flashlight to shine a path through the darkness. I listened to Cassadaga for months, and subjected whoever was nearby to listen to it, as well! I purchased The People's Key on vinyl on the 15th, Conor's birthday, the day it was released. The only thing good I have to say is that, for $20 plus dollars, the record company was "kind enough" to place a CD in the gatefold vinyl album I bought. I've listened to this for a few days now, and either I'm too old and jaded, or this is a terrible album. Sadly, I think it may be the latter. It sounds like Conor and Mike Mogis are just going through the motions, just phoning it in. I miss the furnace blast of Cassadaga, the pomp and majesty of Lifted. When I listened to either of those albums, I felt like finally, here was a bright, gifted, intelligent young artist with something to say, an angry but loving young man who looked around and didn't like what he saw, didn't like what direction America was going in, but had the desire to change it, do something about it, and take us, the fans, along in the process. Sadly, that pomp, brilliance and majesty is missing on this album. This isn't a Bright Eyes album, it can't be... there is no fire, no heart, only songs tossed off without consideration of the fans, the true fans, the ones who have been along on the ride for some time now. I recently read an article in a recent Rolling Stone in which Conor was saying that he just couldn't relate to much of anything, or anyone, these days, that he felt disconnected. Unfortunately, this seems all too true. I have searched for meaning in The People's Key, but sadly, this sonic mess hasn't unlocked any doors for me. I want the old Bright Eyes back, the band with more soul, heart and fire than twenty nameless bands put together... Conor, reach into your soul, and try to find what the journey on the road has taught you. There are fans out there who love what you're doing, and, like me, realize that artists are people too, and are allowed the occasional misstep. I'm willing to set this album aside and wait for one more, another work of brilliance like Lifted, I'm Wide Awake, or Cassadaga. I believe the band has it in them to create more works of beauty... how could they not? Cassadaga was only four years ago! Yes, I believe they can find more poetry in the wicked beautiful mess that is America, but another misstep like The People's Key, and it may be time for this old man to get off the ride and head home.
Description of The People's Key
Bright Eyes will release The People's Key on February 15th 2011 on Saddle Creek. The People's Key--the band's seventh studio album--is the eagerly awaited follow-up to 2007's acclaimed Cassadaga. Since 2006 the once revolving cast of Bright Eyes players has settled around permanent members Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott, with additional musicians joining them in the studio and on tour. Fully realized and bursting with charisma, The People's Key is an assured and accomplished album, artfully arranged and filled with the engaging and mesmeric songwriting for which Oberst is renowned. The first 50,000 copies of this CD will come in limited-edition packaging:6-panel tri-fold die-cut digipak, printed on iridescent foil. Includes O-card, full color CD inner sleeve and 20 page booklet.
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