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Bright Eyes

Bright Eyes is an indie rock band from Omaha, Nebraska, started by Conor Oberst in 1995 and built around him, the producer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Mogis and the arranger Nate Walcott. Its albums came out on Saddle Creek from 1998 to 2011, when the band went on hiatus. Bright Eyes returned in 2020 on Dead Oceans with Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was and followed it with Five Dice, All Threes in 2024.

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A singer in a white suit with an acoustic guitar at a microphone, with a guitarist, a drummer and a keyboard player behind him on a red-lit stage
Photo: Corentin LAMY, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Bright Eyes The Studio Albums 2000–2011

Saddle Creek boxed six Bright Eyes albums in linen, on coloured vinyl, for about $150. The remasters went on sale separately three weeks later.

Elmo Phelge · 4 Nov 2026