Conor Oberst

I’m not really a fan of country twang . I’m off the camp that the guy peaked around the time of Lifted. While I enjoyed I’m Wide Awake when it was first released, I now suspect that Digital Ash was probably the stronger album. As such, I probably shouldn’t really like new project & the Mystic Vally Band.

And I don’t. I don’t have anything against it all, and some of the songs are rather catchy, but I can already tell it’s not going to be the kind of record I’ll return to after these initial plays. It’s inoffensive enough to my ears, but it doesn’t have the relevance that the Bright Eyes albums did. Maybe I am being unfair in comparing them, after all this is a different project. That’s part of the problem though. It just doesn’t sound different when it really should.