2021 Charity Shop Purchases 62 -Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
We are back from our travels and I'm pleased to report that I have amassed a large and eclectic haul to subject you to over the next few weeks.
Our first port of call was Fort William en route to our first week cottage just outside Spean Bridge. I struck lucky in the third charity shop.
Fevers and Mirrors is a 2000 album on Wichita Records (a subsiduary of Saddle Creek) by Bright Eyes. It is one that I had in my hand in Waterloo Records in Austin when it first came out but I never got round to pulling the trigger. Better late that never I suppose
Bright Eyes as many of you will be aware is one of the many projects and nom de plums of American indie folk artis Conor Oberst.
Like most of his albums Fevers and Mirrors is a curate's egg - good in parts and pretty pretentious in others. He usually comes up with just enough good stuff to keep me happy.
Pitchfork seem to like it as they rate it as number 170 in the top 200 albums of the 2000sIt's now the fourth of his albums on the shelves and the 5th if you count the brilliant Better Oblivion Community Center my 2019 album of the year.
Bright Eyes - A Scale, A Mirror and These Indifferent Clocks
Bright Eyes - The Calendar Hung Itself
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