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I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

by Bright Eyes

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of 455,477

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111
2005

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Overall Rating: 3.2988 I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning is ranked overall as 3.2988 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.2369 I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning has an avg. critic score of 3.2369 out of 4 stars

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Stylus Magazine

Bright Eyes may well be on the verge of finally bridging the gap between his precocious talent and the maturity of an ageless songwriter. ...more

Drowned In Sound

It’s the closeness and the honesty which makes ‘I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning’ a thing of awe. ...more

Neumu.net

Though this new political bent shows a heightened sense of maturity and substance, two of Morning's best tracks are poignant, unabashed love songs. ...more

Village Voice (Consumer Guide)

Like the empathy of so many young men, especially artists, his is more self-involved than saints like us prefer. But at least he expresses empathy--to memorable melodies that very nearly bear up under the repetitions his rarely witless or superfluous ...more

Yahoo! Music

Sometimes you can be too darn talented for your own good. Regularly described as a "boy genius", 24-year-old Conor Oberst - doe-eyed self-obsessive, thrift store beautiful, once rumoured to be the consort of Winona Ryder, probably because the ...more

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Rolling Stone

It comes down to the songs, and these are the most intense he's ever written, one instant classic after another. ...more

No Ripcord

This is the best album of the year so far. ...more

Lost At Sea

Undoubtedly his best and most credible album to date. ...more

The Austin Chronicle

Bright EyesDigital Ash in a Digital Urn(Saddle Creek)Bob Dylan's recently painted masterpiece(Chronicles)means that once again all pink-cheeked young musical poets must be measured up against the door frame of his songcraft. Having gone to the head ...more

Entertainment Weekly

In another lifetime, Conor Oberst, the wide-eyed indie gamin who fronts Bright Eyes, would have made one sharp novelist. On the albums he began recording in his native Omaha in the '90s, he reveled in a writerly love of language that ...more

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