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    Adrian Villagomez favorited and reviewed I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
    
    Conor Oberst makes songs about war and depression sound much too appealing. Sure, there's a sappy love song on the album ("First Day of My Life"), but I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning keeps the mood... more
    
    Conor Oberst makes songs about war and depression sound much too appealing. Sure, there's a sappy love song on the album ("First Day of My Life"), but I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning keeps the mood mostly somber. This is Americana through the eyes of a sharp young man with a big voice and a cynical streak. Oberst's lyrics may be too downtrodden for some - "We might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain" - but urban-set folk music doesn't get better than this.
    
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    Crystal favorited and reviewed I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
    
    Landlocked Blues is one of my favorite songs ever! This album is definitely one of the best of the last decade.
    
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    After I got this album, I spent a week listening to it from the first track to the last, and it is possibly the saddest album I’ve ever had the... more
    
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    After I got this album, I spent a week listening to it from the first track to the last, and it is possibly the saddest album I’ve ever had the pleasure of owning. The album begins with a beautifully depressing story which I cannot relate to you in the same way that Conor Oberst’s emotional, quivering voice can. The track is finished out with a cheerful song ending with the words, “I’m happy just because I found out I am really no one.” Oberst’s lyrics make the album less of something that you would simply listen to, but more of something that requires comprehension and contemplation.
    
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    the most symphonic album I've ever heard.
    
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    Favorite album, ever.
    
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    Scott liked and reviewed I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
    
    Everyone needs more Bright Eyes!!
    
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    Such a great album to listen to all the way through!
    
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Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst continues to earn his reputation as our most respected young troubadour with almost frightening ease. For the past few years he's been tagged "rock's boy genius" by the music press. These albums are a soundly articulated slice of modern life rolled into two very different records, both bursting with all the heartfelt poetry for which Bright Eyes' records have earned their acclaim. Of course, the rough edges haven't gone away - the palpitation of a splintering note, the crack of a voice as it overextends, the clumsy thump of a misplaced thumb. It's all still there. But there's a glorious new level of depth, a maturation of texture, writing and delivery. His best work yet.Conor Oberst is running on dangerous ground: getting his first Dylan comparisons at age 12, frolicking with Winona Ryder, releasing two separate albums at once. Didn't he learn anything from Ryan Adams's mistakes? It's a good thing he can write such haunting, intimate songs. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (released simultaneously with Digital Ash in a Digital Urn) is the album the Omaha native has always threatened to make, channeling his country rock influences into articulate, witty ballads that come to life with gorgeous harmonies supplied by Emmylou Harris. The tumbling "We Are Nowhere and It's Now" might be his first actual masterpiece, while the words of album closer "Road to Joy" ("I could've been a famous singer if I had someone else's voice/ But failure's always sounded better") indicate that Oberst might have his head screwed on right after all. -- Aidin Vaziri

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