Bright Eyes have announced a huge reissue and re-recording project for 2022.
Out this year on Dead Oceans, the band will be reissuing their first three albums. On May 27th, we’ll get reissues of A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997, Letting Off The Happiness, and Fevers and Mirrors. These three releases come as part of an even larger reissue project, which will see Bright Eyes reissuing all nine studio albums. Alongside the reissues, the band will release a Companion EP featuring five new recordings of songs on the original release and a cover from an artist they were inspired by at the time of recording.
Today, Bright Eyes have released three new Companion recordings. We’ve gotten a preview of the first three reissues with “Falling Out of Love At This Volume,” “Contrast And Compare (feat. Waxahatchee),” and “Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh (feat. Phoebe Bridgers).”
Listen to those three previews and watch a trailer for the Companion series below.
“It’s a meaningful way to connect with the past that doesn’t feel totally nostalgic and self-indulgent,” Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst explains of the series. “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.”
Pre-order the Companion Series here and check out the tracklists for the Campanion EPs below.
Bright Eyes Companion EPs:
A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997: A Companion Tracklist:
01 – “Driving Fast Through A Big City At Night”
02 – “Solid Jackson”
03 – “A Celebration Upon Completion”
04 – “Falling Out of Love At This Volume”
05 – “Exaltation On A Cool Kitchen Floor”
06 – “Double Joe (Simon Joyner cover)”
Letting Off The Happiness: A Companion Tracklist:
01 – “The Difference In The Shades”
02 – “The City Has Sex (feat. Waxahatchee)”
03 – “Contrast And Compare (feat. Waxahatchee)”
04 – “Kathy With A K’s Song (feat. M Ward)”
05 – “St. Ides Heaven (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) (Elliott Smith cover)”
06 – “June On The West Coast (feat. Becky Stark)”
Fevers and Mirrors: A Companion Tracklist:
01 – “Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh (feat. Phoebe Bridgers0”
02 – “A Scale, A Mirror, And Those Indifferent Clocks (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)”
03 – “Arienette”
04 – “Hypnotist (Song for Daniel H) (Lullaby For The Working Class cover)”
05 – “When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)”
06 – “A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And A Necklace (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)”
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