Digital Ash In A Digital Urn, By: Bright Eyes - Model Number: DOC291CD

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œThe first three are innocent in a way, because we didn™t have an audience when we were making them, Oberst says. œBut from Lifted on, I was definitely aware of an audience. œThe first three are innocent in a way, because we didn™t have an audience when we were making them, Oberst says. œBut from Lifted on, I was definitely aware of an audience. Lifted was well-received right away, and then everything happened with Wide Awake and Digital Ash. Those two albums came out simultaneously. And their lead singles “ œTake It Easy (Love Nothing), from the austere, remote Digital Ash, and œLua, from the warm, folky Wide Awake - debuted in the top two slots on the Billboard Hot 100. œFirst Day of My Life, also from Wide Awake, would later be voted the Number One love song of all time by NPR Music™s reader™s poll.

Bright Eyes had officially broken through. It was a heady, exciting time, but also fraught and tense, both because of the band™s careening new fame, and because of the state of the world. When Bright Eyes made their Tonight Show debut in 2006, they chose to perform none of their shiny new hits, instead delivering a searing, harrowing rendition of their caustic anti-Bush anthem, œWhen The President Talks To God.

These days, Oberst is still amusing himself by messing with the extremes Bright Eyes baked into this era™s releases, extremes that reflected the polar, with-us-or-against-us, fractious feel of the times. The reworked Digital Ash tracks, originally so clean and elegant, are, on the companion EP, full of œharmonica and mandolins “ folky vibes, Oberst says. While the analogue sweetness of the Wide Awake songs have been put through a detached nihilism filter

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Time Code
Gold Mine Gutted
Arc of Time (Time Code)
Down in a Rabbit Hole
Take It Easy (Love Nothing)
Hit the Switch
I Believe in Symmetry
Devil in the Details
Ship in a Bottle
Light Pollution
Theme to Pi±ata
Easy/Lucky/Free

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