Conor Oberst, an artist from Omaha, began writing dark and tormented solo songs under the name Bright Eyes when he was barely a teenager. From its modest beginnings in the mid-1990s, the project became into one of the more well-known figures in the melancholy indie music scene of the time. A changing cast of musicians supported Oberst's tremulous vocals, but Bright Eyes finally came together as a formal three consisting of Oberst, multi-instrumentalists Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. Some of Bright Eyes' best-received and best-performing albums from the 2000s included Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, which both changed the course of indie culture and debuted at number one on the Billboard charts.
Bright Eyes said they have signed with Dead Oceans to release their ninth studio album, Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was, after a nine-year sabbatical.
The beginnings of Bright Eyes may be traced to Oberst, who gained notoriety in the area while playing guitar and singing for the Omaha band Commander Venus. He quickly accumulated a lot of songs that didn't fit with the rest of Commander Venus' discography. Twenty of these songs were collected and published as A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded, a solo album that also served as Oberst's debut under the Bright Eyes name. A few months later, Letting Off the Happiness was released, with contributions by Tilly and the Wall, Of Montreal and Neutral Milk Hotel..

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