Bright Eyes "Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005)" 2025-01-03 100 / Lime

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HEAVEN AND HELL: DELUXE EDITION adds several bonus tracks that have never been released in North America

the song-cycle is anchored by lilting Spanish-inspired instrumentals that absorb a lonesome gravity when placed next to ballads that tug at even the most unwavering heartstrings

both of whom also perform on the recordings

Bright Eyes "Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005)" 2025-01-03 100 / LimeOne 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