Bright Eyes have announced a reissue of their first three albums: 1998's A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 and Letting Off the Happiness, and 2000's Fevers and Mirrors.
Arriving May 27 via Dead Oceans, each reissue will be paired with a six-track companion EP that features reworked versions of the album's original songs, including collaborations with Waxahatchee, Phoebe Bridgers, M Ward, and Becky Stark.
You can listen to the collection's first three singles — "Falling Out of Love at This Volume," "Contrast & Compare" (featuring Waxahatchee), and "Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh" (featuring Phoebe Bridgers) — below.
In a statement about the reissues, Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst said:
It's a meaningful way to connect with the past that doesn't feel totally nostalgic and self-indulgent. We are taking these songs and making them interesting to us all over again. I like that. I like a challenge. I like to be forced to do something that's slightly hard, just to see if we can. My thing was they had to sound different from the originals, we had to mess with them in a substantial way.
Bright Eyes released their latest album, Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was, in 2020.
Hear the three singles, plus a trailer for the reissues and the collection's tracklist, below.
A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997: A Companion:
1. Driving Fast Through A Big City At Night
2. Solid Jackson
3. A Celebration Upon Completion
4. Falling Out of Love At This Volume
5. Exaltation On A Cool Kitchen Floor
6. Double Joe (Simon Joyner cover)
Letting Off the Happiness: A Companion:
1. The Difference In The Shades
2. The City Has Sex (feat. Waxahatchee)
3. Contrast And Compare (feat. Waxahatchee)
4. Kathy With A K's Song (feat. M Ward)
5. St. Ides Heaven (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) (Elliott Smith cover)
6. June On The West Coast (feat. Becky Stark)
Fevers and Mirrors: A Companion:
1. Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
2. A Scale, A Mirror, And Those Indifferent Clocks (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
3. Arienette
4. Hypnotist (Song for Daniel H) (Lullaby For The Working Class cover)
5. When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
6. A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And A Necklace (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997:
1. The Invisible Gardener
2. Patient Hope In New Snow
3. Saturday As Usual
4. Falling Out of Love At This Volume
5. Exaltation On A Cool Kitchen Floor
6. The Awful Sweetness Of Escaping Sweat
7. Puella Quam Amo Est Pulchra
8. Driving Fast Through A Big City At Night
9. How Many Lights Do You See?
10. I Watched You Taking Off
11. A Celebration Upon Completion
12. Emily, Sing Something Sweet
13. All Of The Truth
14. One Straw
15. Lila
16. A Few Minutes On Friday
17. Supriya
18. Solid Jackson
19. Feb. 15th
20. The 'Feel Good' Revolution
Letting Off the Happiness:
1. If Winter Ends
2. Padraic My Prince
3. Contrast And Compare
4. The City Has Sex
5. The Difference In The Shades
6. Touch
7. June On The West Coast
8. Pull My Hair
9. A Poetic Retelling Of An Unfortunate Seduction
10. Tereza And Tomas
Fevers and Mirrors:
1. A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And A Necklace
2. A Scale, A Mirror, And Those Indifferent Clocks
3. The Calendar Hung Itself…
4. Something Vague
5. The Movement Of A Hand
6. Arienette
7. When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass
8. Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh
9. The Center Of The World
10. Sunrise, Sunset
11. An Attempt To Tip The Scales
12. A Song To Pass The Time
Pre-order here.
Arriving May 27 via Dead Oceans, each reissue will be paired with a six-track companion EP that features reworked versions of the album's original songs, including collaborations with Waxahatchee, Phoebe Bridgers, M Ward, and Becky Stark.
You can listen to the collection's first three singles — "Falling Out of Love at This Volume," "Contrast & Compare" (featuring Waxahatchee), and "Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh" (featuring Phoebe Bridgers) — below.
In a statement about the reissues, Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst said:
It's a meaningful way to connect with the past that doesn't feel totally nostalgic and self-indulgent. We are taking these songs and making them interesting to us all over again. I like that. I like a challenge. I like to be forced to do something that's slightly hard, just to see if we can. My thing was they had to sound different from the originals, we had to mess with them in a substantial way.
Bright Eyes released their latest album, Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was, in 2020.
Hear the three singles, plus a trailer for the reissues and the collection's tracklist, below.
A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997: A Companion:
1. Driving Fast Through A Big City At Night
2. Solid Jackson
3. A Celebration Upon Completion
4. Falling Out of Love At This Volume
5. Exaltation On A Cool Kitchen Floor
6. Double Joe (Simon Joyner cover)
Letting Off the Happiness: A Companion:
1. The Difference In The Shades
2. The City Has Sex (feat. Waxahatchee)
3. Contrast And Compare (feat. Waxahatchee)
4. Kathy With A K's Song (feat. M Ward)
5. St. Ides Heaven (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) (Elliott Smith cover)
6. June On The West Coast (feat. Becky Stark)
Fevers and Mirrors: A Companion:
1. Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
2. A Scale, A Mirror, And Those Indifferent Clocks (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
3. Arienette
4. Hypnotist (Song for Daniel H) (Lullaby For The Working Class cover)
5. When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
6. A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And A Necklace (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997:
1. The Invisible Gardener
2. Patient Hope In New Snow
3. Saturday As Usual
4. Falling Out of Love At This Volume
5. Exaltation On A Cool Kitchen Floor
6. The Awful Sweetness Of Escaping Sweat
7. Puella Quam Amo Est Pulchra
8. Driving Fast Through A Big City At Night
9. How Many Lights Do You See?
10. I Watched You Taking Off
11. A Celebration Upon Completion
12. Emily, Sing Something Sweet
13. All Of The Truth
14. One Straw
15. Lila
16. A Few Minutes On Friday
17. Supriya
18. Solid Jackson
19. Feb. 15th
20. The 'Feel Good' Revolution
Letting Off the Happiness:
1. If Winter Ends
2. Padraic My Prince
3. Contrast And Compare
4. The City Has Sex
5. The Difference In The Shades
6. Touch
7. June On The West Coast
8. Pull My Hair
9. A Poetic Retelling Of An Unfortunate Seduction
10. Tereza And Tomas
Fevers and Mirrors:
1. A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And A Necklace
2. A Scale, A Mirror, And Those Indifferent Clocks
3. The Calendar Hung Itself…
4. Something Vague
5. The Movement Of A Hand
6. Arienette
7. When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass
8. Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh
9. The Center Of The World
10. Sunrise, Sunset
11. An Attempt To Tip The Scales
12. A Song To Pass The Time
Pre-order here.
