Bright Eyes - Down In The Weeds Where the World Once Was (August 21, 2020) Album • Page 6

Announcement tomorrow and a Colbert performance would track with the rollout starting in earnest. I think perhaps August 7th for the album?

 

i wonder how long it is

i’d be okay with it being...long

 

Give me a 20+ track album a la Sufjan's Illinois.

 

If we’re getting at least one more single (and I’m guessing several more after that) I’m calling 15+ tracks, 1 hour run time

 

anyone know why designed the album art? I’m obsessed

 

Yeah the album art is cool as hell.

 

if they dont announce the album tomorrow i'm gonna lose it. i need a playlist with bright eyes, phoebe and christian lee hutson on shuffle so i can meet the end of the world.

 

Im going to blow so much money on bright eyes merch tomorrow if the album is announced

 

album art is sick! are the people coming out of the orb or being drawn into it?

 

dis gonna look good on my wall

 

I think the latter

 

feels like a falling into kinda thing to me as well

 

very into the art, has a similar feel to The People’s Key, to me.

 

looks like it’s Zack Nipper, who has done several BE/Saddle Creek covers.

 

Very excited to spend too much money tomorrow

 

now theres the fucking question of the year man

i feel like i'm coming out of the orb personally

 

Released 21st August 2020

1. Pageturners Rag
   
2. Dance and Sing
   
3. Just once in the World
   
4. Mariana Trench
   
5. One and Done
   
6. Pan and Broom
   
7. Stairwell Song
   
8. Persona Non Grata
   
9. Tilt-A-Whirl
   
10. Hot Car in the Sun
    
11. Forced Convalescence
    
12. To Death’s Heart (In Three Parts)
    
13. Calais to Dover
    
14. Comet Song

 

Bright Eyes' long-awaited tenth studio album and first record since 2011, Down in the Weeds Where the World Once Was, will be released viaDead Oceanson August 21st.

Today's announcement comes alongside brand new single "Mariana Trench," which rattles with anxiety, its epic sprawl exploding with the forward-chugging momentum of syncopated brass. Along with a mesmerizing, hand-painted animated video, "Mariana Trench" will premiere shortly at 9:30am Eastern.

Watch the official premiere page here.

As a title, as a thesis, Down In The Weeds Where the World Once Was functions on a global, apocalyptic level of anxiety that looms throughout the record. But on a personal level, it speaks to rooting around in the dirt of one’s memories, trying to find the preciousness that’s overgrown and unrecognizable. For Conor, Mike, and Nate, coming back to Bright Eyes was a bit of that. A symbol of simpler times, vaguely nostalgic. And even though it wasn’t actually possible to go back to the way things were, even though there wasn’t an easy happy ending, there was a new reality left to work with.

Dead Oceans is offering exclusivestandard and deluxe bundles to pre-order on the Secretly Store, which include Down in the Weeds Where the World Once Was 2xLP on limited transparent red & transparent orange vinyl, "Persona Non Grata" b/w "Flirted With You All My Life" 7” on limited transparent orange with opaque red splatter, and various other exclusive items.

All 2xLP variants feature a two-inch die cut hole through the entire package revealing the LPs from both sides. Side D contains an animatedphenakistoscope etching by Drew Tetz and a four-panel lyric booklet.

 

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got the standard bundle although the star thing is cool

I am glad it is long

 

holy shit that secret society variant!

 

Hoping UK pre-orders pop up soon!

 

let’s goo

 

looks like theres going to be more options:

 

so does conor not have any connection with saddle creek at this point?