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Cape Canaveral is simply stunning. It's lines like this that make Conor's music so engaging. He's also got a wicked way with a melody. The fact that these songs are arranged and performed more or less "straight up" adds to this albums charms (Oberst is sometimes too clever for the listeners own good). Highly recommended to any one who appreciates a damn good singer-songwriter album.
Conor Oberst is one of my favorite performers. I love his poetry and the soul behind it. His musicality is also excellent. I am probably old enough to be his grandmother, but I'm not.
Connor recording in Mexico gives this album a more cultural feeling. Connor Oberst has done it again. No other songwriter can capture the essence of self loathing, sprirtual healing, and self awakening all in the same album. Connor is really a great lyricist and it shows more than ever in his first solo album. This is a great album for one of this generations greatest voices.
I have to admit i'm not a big bright eyes fan, but on several recommendations to check this record out i took the bait, i'm a happy fish so far, not every song is for me but way more yes than no, even if bright eyes doesn't float your boat check out Conor Oberst's release, it might just brighten your eyes.
Always tunefully and lyrically clever, Conor Oberst scores again, this time without Bright Eyes, or in other words, without his producer Mike Mogis. When Oberst toured behind this album, he and the band ratcheted up the songs to perform a hard-driving rock show, but here they range mostly from mellow to mid-tempo, from country to folk, with Oberst adding his signature philosophical insight on life and nature (describing a thunderstorm as "controlled chaos, confused energy"). The best song on the album is "Moab" with its refrain of "there's nothing that road cannot heal," a sort of mid-tempo, Dylanesque "One Too Many Mornings."
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