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So I have the new Bright Eyes album, Cassadaga. If anyone is interested in it, I can upload it to filefront so you can download it. Just let me know and I'll do it, especially if more than one person would like it.
btw, it's not supposed to come out until April 10th
Last Edit: Mar 29, 2007 14:05:25 GMT -5 by nola - Back to Top
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Post by stuckinutero on Mar 29, 2007 14:10:31 GMT -5
Was gonna throw a post up on this. Anyone who uses bittorrent can PM me for a link if they like. I want to write a review up, but midterms are taking priority right now.
In a nutshell, its a good album. More along the lines of I'm Wide Awake, but I don't think it's presented as well.
It's always the big debacle with your favorite musicians. Would you rather them drop something every year so you can get your fix, or would you rather have them every other year with an album that was worked insanely hard on?
Funny how things work. 2 great examples are TMV and NIN/Trent. With Teeth took a few years and IMO was a TERRIBLE album. TMV took a little longer to work on Frances The Mute than their other albums, and it really showed. Amputechture was produced in half the time and seemed thrown together. Even though something like this is more than likely chalked up to how the artists conduct themselves in the studio. Seems like guys like Trent "over think" their work and wind up screwing it up in post prod. While guys like Omar really refine their work over time.
I think Conor is one of those guys who could benefit from the extra time.
And one thing I've always wondered. Maybe someone here can help me out. There is always this rumor going around that he hasn't really written anything since he was 16 (or so). All the tracks from I'm Wide Awake and DAITDU had been written for years (to my knowledge). I also know that at least half the tracks from Cassadaga have been written for a long time now. Anyone?
I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!
^^^^Yea I had heard that about Cassadaga, but I wasn't sure about it at all. Now that another is saying the same, it may very well be true but who knows?
I'm so pissed that I haven't got my pre-order. They shipped days ago and I want to hold out for a legit copy. Everybody else I've talked to has reported back on the free 3" cd and hand written thank you note, so if I get any less, I'll be sh*tting in a box and sending it FedEx to Saddle Creek. Trust me, there won't be a delay on that.
I'm so pissed that I haven't got my pre-order. They shipped days ago and I want to hold out for a legit copy. Everybody else I've talked to has reported back on the free 3" cd and hand written thank you note, so if I get any less, I'll be sh*tting in a box and sending it FedEx to Saddle Creek. Trust me, there won't be a delay on that.
Mine came yesterday and included the 3" and the note. I bought a shirt through them before and got a note then too. Does anyone know anything about the notes? Is it written by the guy/girl who does the shipping?
Post by ziggyandthemonkeys on Apr 1, 2007 12:07:27 GMT -5
Like the new album, like his voice on it, not as whiney as his other albums. Just grabbed tickets to see him and Gillian Welch, 19th row, should be a good show.
Like the new album, like his voice on it, not as whiney as his other albums. Just grabbed tickets to see him and Gillian Welch, 19th row, should be a good show.
I bought tickets through the presale like 3 weeks ago and STILL don't know where my seats are. The group handling the presale has totally screwed up every aspect of it.
Please guys, no sendspace links or such for copy written material. Just because you own a legit copy does not mean you can freely share it with others.
Post by melikecheese on Apr 6, 2007 13:02:43 GMT -5
This album is supposed to have awesome packaging,
You get a 3" CD with the CD purchase (as many of you report), a 7" with the LP purchase and a mp3 with the mp3 purchase, oh why would you ever by the mp3 version of anything.
Post by stuckinutero on Apr 6, 2007 13:12:04 GMT -5
melikecheese said:
This album is supposed to have awesome packaging,
You get a 3" CD with the CD purchase (as many of you report), a 7" with the LP purchase and a mp3 with the mp3 purchase, oh why would you ever by the mp3 version of anything.
Supposedly the cover is just a picture of a palm tree with a bunch of greyish color around it. It comes with some kind of decoder that you can run over the front to reveal pictures. I would never BUY and mp3 version of anything. FLACs another deal, but most lossless compressions are becoming commonplace on trackers these days.
This was a good idea with the cover though. I only buy CDs that I really enjoy these days. Having the packaging and liner notes is worth it in such a situation. Maybe record companies should get the hint and drop all disc down to $10 flat, were they should be. It disgusts me when I walk into a store and see a 40 minute LP going for $18.99.
I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!
Ahhh, memories... I recall my friends telling me --- "LISTEN to this," and they popped in some new guy called Bright Eyes. I was 16 or 17 around that time, as was Conner, and the recordings were beautifuly DIY and posessed a intimate yet exciting charm. A friend who saw him preform in a small club around 1997 came back in wonderment of this kid who sat on stage, alone with an acoustic guitar, and bared his soul. It is the sound that has given power to many, from ealy Dylan to Daniel Johnston.
I guess that a lot of other people were hearing these gems played by friends, and before long, his name was popping up everywhere with comparisons to Bob Dylan and the tag-line of "child prodigy."
We all know where the story went from there.
My first impression of Cassadaga was that it is a good album, but lacking in the true, nitty-gritty soul that his past efforts have reveled in. Every artist has to change his/her sound to remain relevant, and the change is apparent in the twang of the slide guitars, the picking of the banjos, the ever-present fiddles, and the slick, overproduction. There is also something deeper, and more sinister to this album than his past recordings have bared. The style of the songwriting is classic Bright Eyes: the lyrics are sadly uplifting, intelligent, and ironic. The placement of his words would fit in with any album he has ever made. The band and production style, however, give the recordings a feeling less like Dylan, and more like cheesey, middle-of-the-road Springsteen.
Cassadaga, I think, is a good follow-up to "I'm Wide Awake," and he seems to take THAT sound even farther on this new album. It is a grand sound, and one that would make for a beautiful live experience. Hearing these songs at a festival at night could be incredible, and surely memorable. It is possible that you can look at this album as the blossoming of a new artist in the realm of popular music, or the result of a larger recording budget and over post-production. I miss the sound and power of hearing the guy sitting alone in a room, or on a stage, and emptying his heart out to everyone who will listen, even if he is only talking to himself.
"All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act." -- Marcel Duchamp