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Digital Ash in a Digital Urn

by Bright Eyes

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Overall Rating: 2.6792 Digital Ash in a Digital Urn is ranked overall as 2.6792 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 2.5907 Digital Ash in a Digital Urn has an avg. critic score of 2.5907 out of 4 stars

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Stylus Magazine

Digital Ash offers enough swelling, androgynous moments to approach its hype, or at least keep up with its release partner. ...more

Entertainment Weekly

On Digital Ash in a Digital Urn , Bright Eyes' guilty-pleasure sidekick to the public-radio earnestness of the simultaneously released I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning , singer-songwriter Conor Oberst and his musicians exchange folk instruments for ...more

Entertainment Weekly

Oberst's tunes are too lumpy to accommodate the smoothness demanded of synth-pop, and the cumulative effect is often dreary

PopMatters

It tips its hand too early, frontloading its best songs and rendering the second half excessive and ponderous. ...more

Rolling Stone

The good songs don't start kicking in until about halfway through, after many synth glitches and botched break beats. But once it gets going, it's phenomenal. ...more

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Alternative Press

Riskier but not totally out of character; it's the more holistic right brain to Wide Awake's rational left...read the complete review at Alternative Press

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Uncut

The songs are neither dogmatic nor whacked out. Like fine pop writers before him, Oberst's simply wrestling with something troubling he feels thick in the...read the complete review at Uncut

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Blender

Mostly, these electro trances... sound like an ill-advised quest to make a Williamsburg version of Dark Side Of The...read the complete review at Blender

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cokemachineglow

Urn is a chore....read the complete review at cokemachineglow

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The A.V. Club

Bright EyesDigital Ash In A Digital Urn[Buy It!] (Saddle Creek)Bright EyesI'm Wide Awake, It's Morning[Buy It!] (Saddle Creek)Conor Oberst gets due credit for his literate lyrics, cut-vein performing style, and indie business acumen, but his greatest...read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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