Bright Eyes - Noise Floor: A Companion (Opaque Gold)

Bright Eyes - Noise Floor: A Companion (Opaque Gold)12" EP, Limited Edition, Opaque Gold Vinyl Dead Oceans (2023) US, EU One of the things that struck Conor Oberst as he and the band went through twenty plus years of music is that he may in fact have been writing the same song this whole time. Not sonically, of course, but conceptually. This last wave contains, in Noise Floor, early Bright Eyes songs so raw Oberst never even released them back in the day, as well as, in Cassadaga and The People's Key,

free of any trend

Its first single “Ghost” simultaneously haunts and hypnotizes as her voice hums a shimmering harmony punctuated by fits of fuzzed-out six-string emotion

Our mediums of communication are fraught with caveats

and in the process reinventing itself

"and if I'm making something young-me would be proud of

and places iconic

and priorities

Let’s Slash the Seats and inspired 2000’s Bow Down to the Exit Sign

The album was mastered by Dave Fridmann at Tarbox Road Studios

with the swift and acute drumming of Takashi and their melodic

180g Rocket Recordings (2022) UK

the music — and band