The 100b Crüe is going to see Bright Eyes play next weekend and I am beyond excited. His latest EP Four Winds is yet again exquisite. The way he’s not just able to pull, but drag the hearstrings up and down is amazing. Those of you who thought Digital Ash In A Digital Urn was a bit too ehm, synthy or poppy or something or … Ok I don’t actually know what you could have against Digital Ash other than that it sounds more experimental and different from anything he had done before, which to me makes it all the more phenomenal that he can excel at something that seems far removed from his previous work.
Anyway, I was saying that the six songs on Four Winds sound more country and familiar at first listen, but he wouldn’t be Conor Oberst if it wasn’t thrilling and new at the same time. The simplicity of the twangy guitars, harmonica, fiddle and other seemingly traditional instruments soon reveal a complicated layer of Bright Eyes-ness. I don’t know what else to call it. It has that unmistakable pessimistic beauty that we know and love so well, but totally reinvented. I can’t wait for the new album to come out if this is any indication of what it’s gonna sound like.
Listen to “Four Winds” from Saddle Creek.
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