Bright Eyes - Letting Off The Happiness

Beloved band Bright Eyes are rereleasing their entire catalog, each reissued album arriving as part their ongoing Companions project.

The Companion series gives Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott a chance to revisit some of their earlier material and re-work it entirely — with the occasional addition of some talented friends. This ambitious project will see the release of 54 new recordings over the coming year.

Bright Eyes began in 1995 as a recording moniker for a then 15-year old Conor Oberst's work with producer/multi-instrumentalist Mike Mogis. Mogis and composer/ arranger/ multi-instrumentalist Nathaniel Walcott became fully fledged members in 2006. Over the course of 23 years the music's impact and influence has been significant; Bright Eyes' songs have been covered by dozens of artists, including Lorde, The Killers, Mac Miller, Dave Rawlings & Gillian Welch, Phoebe Bridgers, Snow Patrol, Jason Mraz and beabadoobee. ??For a band that's often been perceived as an outlier, the depth, breadth, and impact of the Bright Eyes canon is remarkable. Over the last two-plus decades, as Bright Eyes has released one after another time capsule LP's — urgent dispatches from transcendent, fleeting eras of our collective lives — they've also simultaneously been assembling a robust, mature, narratively cohesive discography.

 

 

1. If Winter Ends

2. Padraic My Prince

3. Contrast and Compare

4. The City Has Sex

5. The Difference in the Shades

6. Touch June on the West Coast

7. Pull My Hair a Poetic Retelling of An Unfortunate Seduction

8. Tereza and Tomas

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