Bright Eyes

This EP is the work of Conor Oberst and Neva Dinova's Jake Bellows. The two switch off on vocals, but the songs flow evenly and Bellow's twangier pieces sit quite nicely next to Oberst's more emotionally threadbare material. Fans of Bright Eyes will eat this up and hopefully seek out Neva Dinova's great self-titled album.

This split EP finds two Omaha, Nebraska, bands making indie-folk prettiness out of all the
depression that can befall a twentysomething. Neva Dinova acquit themselves with Gram
Parsons-y ballads, but the star, predictably, is Bright Eyes' boy genius Conor Oberst, who's
so adept at shambling tunefulness that he can make even levelheaded skeptics want to sing
along with his emoting about "a comedy so dry and black it makes my stomach h... More >