# Bright Eyes Hot New EP and U.S. Tour and Show Dates

- Link: https://indierockcafe.com/2007/03/bright-eyes-hot-new-ep-and-u-s-tour-and-show-dates/
- Published: 2007-03-22T16:48:00-04:00
- Author: Max Hammer

[[The super-talented emo-rock indie band Bright Eyes, flying on the success of the
release of the Four Winds EP and a string of hot shows in New York City two weeks
ago, are teasing fans with the upcoming full-length release of their long anticipated
album Cassadaga scheduled for official release by the band’s own indie label, **
Saddle Creek Records**.

Cassadaga is Bright Eyes’ first full-length album in two years. The album is titled
after the name of a town knof psychics in Florida.
If you can’t wait until April
10, you can stream the entire _Cassadaga _album from the band’s record label website.
Just in the past few years, the band has achieved enormous success worldwide. In
fact, their stardom rivals that of “Big Five” label artists who have worked decades
to reach the same level of popularity and record sales.

In 2004, the band hit the **Billboard Hot Top 100** twice within two weeks of release
with their singles “Lua” and “Take It Easy (Love Nothing).” While they have not 
released a new album since 2005, rumors say it’s in the works. 
The new EP, Four
Winds, currently No. 5 on Billboard’s Top Independent Albums charts, is a pre-ample
for the upcoming release of Cassadaga, which critics call the band’s best work to
date. The album is as American as anything Oberst has ever created with intricate
observations of American history – good and bad – as he travels across the country.

In the single “[Four Winds](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/Four_Winds_by_Bright_Eyes.mp3)“,
Oberst writes “off to old Dakota where genocide sleeps, in the Black Hills, the 
Badlands, the calloused East, I buried my ballast, I made my peace.” Other notable
songs include the ironic “Soul Singer in a Session Band,” the energetic “hot Knives”
and a show favorite “I Must Belong Somewhere”. [](https://indierockcafe.com/2007/)

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On the [Saddle Creek Records ](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/saddle-creek.com)
website, the fun song “Make A Plan To Plan To Love Me” is described as “Bright Eyes
at their most playful; a straight-up love song, replete with girl group vocals and
Burt Bacharach strings.

From the website: “Oberst, the fumbling guitarist whose impassioned prose tumbles
out under stark stage spotlights, is still recognizable in every track, but the 
songs are rich with elaborate production, cinema-sized orchestration and, at times,
sprawling, almost psychedelic, atmospherics. “

Here is the official track listing for _Cassadaga_:

**1. Clairaudients (Kill or Be Killed)
2. Four Winds [mp3 link above]3. If The Brakeman
Turns My Way4. Hot Knives5. Make A Plan To Love Me6. Soul Singer In A Session Band7.
Classic Cars8. Middleman9. Cleanse Song10. No One Would Riot For Less11. Coat Check
Dream Song12. I Must Belong Somewhere13. Lime TreeBright Eyes is the creation of
guitarist, singer and songwriter Conor Oberst and producer and instrumentalist Mike
Mogie and Nate Walcott. The band is also frequently joined by many indie artists
from the Omaha scene and beyond, including Andy LeMaster (Now It’s Overhead), Ben
Kweller, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, Maria Taylor, Rachel Yamagata, M. Ward, 
Janet Weiss (ex-Sleater Kinney), Jason Boesel (Rilo Kiley) and John McEntire (Tortoise).

Bright Eyes is somewhat like [Arcade Fire](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/The%20Arcade%20Fire1.html)
and [Broken Social Scene](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/Broken%20Social%20Scene%20Film%20Scores.html)–
they have rejected Big Five contracts and make wonderful, creative and experimental
music that involves artists from other bands or disciplines in a rotating-type fashion.

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Fame and experience in the business world is nothing new to these guys, especially
for Oberst who caught the attention of the indie rock world in 1994 at the age of
14! as the founder, singer and songwriter of the indie outfit **Commander Venus**.

Realted Links:

Bright Eyes Spring 2007 Tour and Show Dates

[Bright Eyes MySpace](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/brighteyes)

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