Bright Eyes
Four Winds
He’s back! Having sat seething on the sidelines while Brandon Flowers ransacked the Americana thesaurus on ‘Sam’s Town’, Conor Oberst returns to show him how it’s done. “A squatter’s made a mural of a Mexican girl/With 15 cans of spray paint and a chemical swirl”, he warbles, over a riff perched on a tightrope between Van Morrison and Bruce Springsteen. Blows you away.
Conor Oberst announces summer tour
Bright Eyes: Shepherds Bush Empire, London, Tuesday July 3
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