This week we’re throwing back to an album recommended by Mitch and his Omaha-based roots. I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning from Bright Eyes (Mitch has been blasting Bright Eyes every chance he gets these last few quarantined weeks). Conor Oberst is a longtime fave (in part because I was a teen in the mid-aughts, in part due to living in Omaha for 4 years) and as I first listened to this 2005 album this week, I realized I already knew most of the songs on it (in part because a guy I had a crush on in high school listened to them, in part due to living in Omaha for 4 years). I’ve been listening to it a lot outside, on my daily 30 min bike rides, while weeding/gardening, while walking the dog, and it’s truly making an excellent soundtrack to this strange and surreal moment in our world’s history. It’s sad angst and joyful noise and power and aggression and gentleness and making the best of your situation and drowning and invigoration. I’M HERE FOR IT AND NOW LET’S FUCK IT UP BOYS MAKE SOME NOISE
2020 week 33 | down in the weeds, where the world once was by bright eyes
in album-a-week