Better Oblivion Community Center (Phoebe Bridgers & Conor Oberst) - (January 24, 2019) Album • Page 17

Woke up in the middle of the night. I have heard the first track. Ain't going back to bed.

 

My brain isn't ready for all of these great lyrics at once. goddamn.

 

This is really, really cool

 

Their promo pic on the spotify band page is great, gotta find that somewhere!

 

according to the credits on spotify, Andy LeMaster produced the whole album with Conor and Phoebe, he's a Saddle Creek mainstay that has produced an insane number of albums, many of which are Conor projects

 

Yeah this is something special.

 

name a more prolific and amazing artist from the past two years than phoebe. you can’t.

 

Here's the promo pic I was referring to

 

I also found these

 

Love this. It’s incredible!

 

so has anyone read the Conor/Phoebe interview on the pre-order page? it's a masterpiece of awkwardness and discomfort lmao

"INTERVIEWER: I wanted to talk about “Dylan Thomas” cuz that’s the first single, right? It’s the first single and the last song you wrote for the album. There’s a lot of death and ghosts on the album, and mentions of illness and feeling unwell and being anxious - and those are things you’ve both written about a lot - which is partly why this collaboration works so well. Dylan Thomas, we all know, is the esteemed Welsh poet who died in 1953 at the age of 39. He’s mentioned for ‘dying on the barroom floor’ and you know, he was definitely a big drinker. He was drinking at the White Horse in the West Village every night he was in New York before he died. And he fell into a coma at the Chelsea Hotel and died soon after at Saint Vincent’s on 8th Avenue. Did you know that he actually died of emphysema, pneumonia and bronchitis? And that in November 1953, the month he died, over 200 people died in New York City from air pollution? He probably died from smog.
PHOEBE: Huh."

 

I don’t wanna overhype this and say it’s a classic but goddamn. This shit is a classic. lol

 

waking up to this on Spotify was the best gd thing

 

here’s the Colbert performance, I found it on Reddit

this album is so fucking good and such a surprise. really glad I got one of the brochures

 

anyone seen any uk stores selling the pre order? ordered the mitski album via secretly store and shipping was $$ and then i had to pay customs charges as well

 

listen to I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning

 

"Service Road" wrecks me. What a beautiful song.

 

Better Oblivion Community Center - Shop UK pre-order!

 

Wait this dropped ? Wtf

 

I stayed up two hours later than I wanted to be if excitement and now I’m up an hour early haha, havnt been this amped over a new albhm in a long time

 

I definitely wasn’t expecting to wake up to having the whole album! Just finished first listen and... wow! Unreasonably high expectations exceeded! I’m sure there will be a lot to dig into and digest lyrically here but I immediately appreciated the line “that ghost is just a kid in a sheet” and that they left in the drummer saying “it’s impossible to count” going into Sleepwalkin’.

 

She’s only 24 fucking years old. We probably haven’t even heard peak Phoebe yet, and that’s ridiculous

 

YouTube link of the performance

 

If you really want to go all-in, listen to Phoebe talk about how I’m Wide Wake It’s Morning is her favorite album and then listen to IWAIM

 

Good thing I have a five hour drive to Lake Placid this morning so I can listen to this non-stop.