BRIGHT EYES – Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005) [2023 Reissue] – 2LP – Champagne Wave Vinyl

2LP – Limited Edition Champagne Wave Coloured Vinyl.

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 Peoples Key, the bands most polished and sophisticated albums. When Bright Eyes toured Cassadega they performed an epic 7 sold-out nights at NYCs Town Hall.

Whats more grown-up rockstar than that? And yet Thematically those early songs are not that different than the songs I make now, Oberst says, shaking his head. Theres something affirming and disheartening about it. Its like, have I really changed or grown? But maybe its just that I knew what I wanted to write about from the beginning.

Tracklist:

Side A:
1. Mirrors and Fevers
2. I Will Be Grateful for This Day
3. Trees Get Wheeled Away
4. Drunk Kid Catholic
5. Spent on Rainy Days
6. The Vanishing Act

SideB:
1. Soon You Will Be Leaving Your Man
2. Blue Angels Air Show
3. Weather Reports
4. Seashell Tale
5. Bad Blood

SideC:
1. Amy in the White Coat
2. Devil Town
3. Ive Been Eating (For You)
4. Happy Birthday to Me (February 15)
5. Motion Sickness

SideD:
1. Act of Contrition
2. Hungry For A Holiday
3. When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass Again
4. Entry Way Song
5. Its Cool, We Can Still Be Friends