Home → Bright Eyes → LIFTED or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A Companion
LIFTED or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A Companion
Folk · 2022 · 6 tracks · 30m

LIFTED or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A Companion

Bright Eyes

November 11, 2022 · Dead Oceans

Find on Amazon

A warm, autumnal retrospective that trades youthful panic for quiet, collaborative grace

Tracklist · 6 Tracks · 30m
01
The Big Picture (Companion version)
5:26
02
You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. (Companion version)
3:51
03
Laura Laurent (Companion version)
5:03
04
Nothing Gets Crossed Out (Companion version)
4:11
05
November (Companion version)
4:09
06
Waste of Paint (Companion version)
7:56
Moments Worth Listening For
The way Gillian Welch's unmistakable, dusty harmony enters on Nothing Gets Crossed Out, anchoring the song's existential drift.
The transition into the cover of Azure Ray's November, where Becky Stark's backing vocals wrap around the acoustic guitar like a warm blanket.
The final, exhausted acoustic strum of Waste of Paint, replacing the original's frantic teenage anger with a quiet, devastating sigh.
Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does LIFTED or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A Companion sound next to the rest of Bright Eyes's catalogue?

MOOATMNRGPROVOC

This album stays in step with the catalogue across the board — no axis departs enough to be worth its own note. Hover the dots to see where each one sits.

Cassette uses generative AI to enrich its catalog. How we use AI →