Cassadaga 2LP (Color) fg_Catalog Number_XL-114-1 He rises to power though

He rises to power though

It’s how I feel the album sounds

it’d be easy to hear this as self-pity

With the Iraq war newly raging in the background

Cassadaga 2LP (Color) fg_Catalog Number_XL-114-1 He rises to power thoughOne of the things that struck Oberst as he and the band went through twenty plus years of music is that he may in fact have been writing the same song this whole time. Not sonically, of course, but conceptually. This last wave contains, in Noise Floor, early Bright Eyes songs so raw Oberst never even released them back in the day, as well as, in Cassadaga and The People's Key, the band's most polished and sophisticated albums. When Bright Eyes toured