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| Latimes |
 Conor Oberst hasn't done an album under his own name since the dawn of his career in the early '90s, establishing his reputation as the defining songwriter of his generation since then mainly under the Bright Eyes banner.This return to his original billing doesn't signal a radical reinvention. The name tag and most of the support team (bassist Macey Taylor, guitarist Nik Freitas and Rilo Kiley drummer Jason Boesel are the core band) are different on "Conor Oberst," but the record, which comes out today, mingles folk rock, country, pop and rootsy rock to land not too far from Bright Eyes' broad turf. It's a little looser, which means pretty loose indeed, and sometimes a lot looser. A minute into the anthem-like rock song "Souled Out!!!," there's a sudden interruption followed by laughter, and then a quick question to the musicians: "Chorus again or another one?"...full text |
| Slantmagazine |
| That he has recorded his first proper "solo" album in over a decade suggests that Conor Oberst, better known as the boy wonder behind Bright Eyes, is making a deliberate break from his recent work. But the changes evident on Conor Oberst are more subtle and speak to his ever-increasing willingness to self-edit. Given that his previous two efforts, 2005's I'm Wide Awake It's Morning and 2007's Cassadaga, included such exemplary singles as a duet with Emmylou Harris on "Another Travelin' Song" and the "apocalyptic hoe-down" of "Four Winds," respectively, the laidback country-rock style of this effort isn't such a radical departure....full text |
| Courant |
| The back story is preposterous: For his third solo album, Conor Oberst decamped to a villa near the mystical Mexican city of Tepoztlan, said to be the birthplace of the Aztec serpent god and a rallying point for UFOs. While there, he wrote songs about Cape Canaveral, Sausalito, Calif., and New York City, and recorded them with his collaborators in what he dubbed the Mystic Valley Band. Go ahead, roll your eyes. It's precious to the point of pomposity, and yet ... And yet "Conor Oberst" (Merge) is the richest collection of songs from Conor Oberst -- via Bright Eyes, Desaparecidos, whatever -- in a long time....full text |
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