Bright Eyes Are Getting Older and Facing Doom on Down in the Weeds...

get good news, not a soul in the world would blame you for screaming. So when Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst croons, “I screamed when I realized what was happening / That I had good news” on “Dance and Sing,” the second track from the Americana-emo three-piece’s long-awaited, decade-in-the-making record,, he’s crooning about the ultimate fantasy in 2020: The receipt of happy tidings in a decidedly unhappy moment.

It’s not that Oberst, Mogis and Walcott combine into one Nostradamus, really. It’s more that together, they capture the feeling of living under unlivable circumstances while the people charged with keeping the planet spinning blithely throw their hands up in the air.

reads so distinctly as an album for 2020: Occasions as momentous and painful as the end of a relationship or the passing of a loved one have a way of bringing the whole planet crashing down on one’s head. Oberst invokes his marriage and his brother directly, and takes a beat on “Forced Convalescence” to freak out about getting older, the worst punishment a musician who built a career plumbing the depths of male teenage angst could suffer.

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