The People's Key (2016 Reissue)

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1.	Firewall 07:15	buy track
2.	Shell Games 03:55	buy track
3.	Jejune Stars 04:10	buy track
4.	Approximate Sunlight 04:24	buy track
5.	Haile Selassie 04:33	buy track
6.	A Machine Spiritual (In The People's Key) 04:20	buy track
7.	Triple Spiral 03:50	buy track
8.	Beginner's Mind 03:55	buy track
9.	Ladder Song 03:58	buy track
10.	One For You, One For Me 06:35	buy track

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The People's Key (2016 Reissue)
One of the things that struck 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, the band’s most polished and sophisticated albums. When Bright Eyes toured Cassadega they performed an epic 7 sold-out nights at NYC’s Town Hall. What’s more grown-up rock-star than that? And yet …“Thematically those early songs are not that different than the songs I make now,” Oberst says, shaking his head. “There’s something affirming and disheartening about it. It’s like, have I really changed or grown? But maybe it’s just that I knew what I wanted to write about from the beginning.”

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released June 16, 2023

CONOR OBERST
VOCALS GUITARS PIANOS KEYBOARDS

MIKE MOGIS
GUITARS PEDAL STEEL EFFECTS PROGRAMMING PERCUSSION

NATHANIEL WALCOTT
SYNTHESIZERS PIANOS ORGANS MELLOTRON

PRODUCED, ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY BRIGHT EYES
M1xED BY MIKE MoGis
ENGINEERED BY MIKE MOGIS AND ANDY LEMASTER
RECORDED AT ARC STUDIOS IN OMAHA, NEBRASKA IN THE YEAR 2010
MASTERED BY BOB LUDWIG AT GATEWAY MASTERING IN PORTLAND, MAINE

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Bright Eyes Omaha, Nebraska

Bright Eyes are the Omaha, Nebraska based band consisting of Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Walcott.

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Oct 11

Downtown Las Vegas Event Center

Las Vegas, NV
Nov 15

Weissenhäuser Strand Hotel

Hamburg, Germany

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