BRIGHT EYES - Cassadaga (2023 Reissue) JOHN WILLIAMS / CHARLES GERHARDT / NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Author and long-term band collaborator

Author and long-term band collaborator Robin Turner explains in his expansive sleeve notes that this release is “the Director’s Cut of ‘Know Your Enemy’

I'm playing virtually all the instruments myself

Much of the album’s success is also attributable to the excellent material

—Pitchfork

BRIGHT EYES - Cassadaga (2023 Reissue) JOHN WILLIAMS / CHARLES GERHARDT / NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Author and long-term band collaborator2LP Limited Edition Yellow Vinyl. One 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 Peoples Key, the bands most polished and sophisticated