Oberst has a sound on a much more positive and happy note with The Mystic Valley Band than compared to his albums released with his previous band Bright Eyes. This 12 track self titled album was recorded during a month long stint in Mexico last winter. While Oberst’s unique atypical voice is either one that you love or hate, there is no doubt his lyrics are crafted with intricate care. Cape Canaveral starts off the journey with a smooth lullaby acoustics where he admits “Victory is sweet even deep in the cheap seats”. Moab is an upbeat electric tune about a man’s travels and how being on the road is able to fix anything, “See those headlights coming towards us?/That’s someone going back to a town/They said they’d never/Thy swore it on their lives/’ ‘There’s nothing that the road cannot heal”. Sausalito is an automatic mood lifter with a poppy beat and breezy melodies and lyrics ‘We should move to Sausalito/Livings easy on a houseboat/Let the ocean rock us back and forth to sleep”. This album is refreshing and delicately eye opening.
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I think I enjoyed his sideprojects more then his Brighteyes stuff. I read your top ten too, I actually was listening to TVotR when I saw it... and I actually knew 2 other bands :)
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