I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning: A Companion — Bright Eyes

A cold, synthetic reflection on youthful passion from a distance of nearly two decades.

Tracklist · 6 Tracks · 28m

Old Soul Song (For the New World Order) (Companion version)

4:39

First Day of My Life (Companion version)

3:26

Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel (Companion version)

5:41

We Are Nowhere and It’s Now (Companion version)

4:17

Road to Joy (Companion version)

4:15

Land Locked Blues (Companion version)

6:00

Moments Worth Listening For

The way the acoustic simplicity of First Day of My Life is completely subverted by a pulsing synthesizer and a lonely, echoing trumpet line.

Gillian Welch's timeless harmonies cutting through the dark, electronic hum of Land Locked Blues, grounding the song in its original folk DNA.

The steady, synthetic drum beat on Old Soul Song that lends a cold, modern urgency to a track originally defined by its warm acoustic strums.

Where This Album Departs

How does I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning: A Companion sound next to the rest of Bright Eyes's catalogue?

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