News Bright Eyes to reissue nine studio albums

Set for release over the next year, Bright Eyes have announced plans to reissue their nine studio albums as a ‘Companion’ series, alongside new recordings.

Each album reissue series will be partnered with “the release of a Companion EP of five new recordings of songs contained on the original release plus a cover version from an artist they found particularly inspiring at the time of the original recording”.

“It’s a meaningful way to connect with the past that doesn’t feel totally nostalgic and self-indulgent,” Conor Oberst says. “We are taking these songs and making them interesting to us all over again. I like that. I like a challenge. I like to be forced to do something that’s slightly hard, just to see if we can.”

On 27th May, Bright Eyes’ first three albums - ‘A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997’, ‘Letting Off The Happiness’ and ‘Fevers and Mirrors’ - will receive the Companion treatment.

Today’s announcement comes with the release of three new Companion series recordings: ‘Falling Out of Love At This Volume’, ‘Contrast And Compare’ featuring Waxahatchee and ‘Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh featuring Phoebe Bridgers.

Check them out below.

‘Companion’ EPs (new recordings) Tracklisting:

A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997: A Companion
1) “Driving Fast Through A Big City At Night”
2) “Solid Jackson”
3) “A Celebration Upon Completion”
4) “Falling Out of Love At This Volume”
5) “Exaltation On A Cool Kitchen Floor”
6) “Double Joe” (Simon Joyner cover)

Letting Off The Happiness: A Companion
1) “The Difference In The Shades”
2) “The City Has Sex (feat. Waxahatchee)”
3) “Contrast And Compare (feat. Waxahatchee)”
4) “Kathy With A K’s Song (feat. M Ward)”
5) “St. Ides Heaven (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)” (Elliott Smith cover)
6) “June On The West Coast (feat. Becky Stark)”

Fevers and Mirrors: A Companion
1) “Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)”
2) “A Scale, A Mirror, And Those Indifferent Clocks (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)”
3) “Arienette”
4) “Hypnotist (Song for Daniel H)” (Lullaby For The Working Class cover)
5) “When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)”
6) “A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And A Necklace (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)”

Album Reissues Tracklisting:

A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997
1) “The Invisible Gardener”
2) “Patient Hope In New Snow”
3) “Saturday As Usual”
4) “Falling Out of Love At This Volume”
5) “Exaltation On A Cool Kitchen Floor”
6) “The Awful Sweetness Of Escaping Sweat”
7) “Puella Quam Amo Est Pulchra”
8) “Driving Fast Through A Big City At Night”
9) “How Many Lights Do You See?”
10) “I Watched You Taking Off”
11) “A Celebration Upon Completion”
12) “Emily, Sing Something Sweet”
13) “All Of The Truth”
14) “One Straw”
15) “Lila”
16) “A Few Minutes On Friday”
17) “Supriya”
18) “Solid Jackson
19) “Feb. 15th”
20) “The ‘Feel Good’ Revolution”

Letting Off The Happiness
1) “If Winter Ends”
2) “Padraic My Prince”
3) “Contrast And Compare”
4) “The City Has Sex”
5) “The Difference In The Shades”
6) “Touch”
7) “June On The West Coast”
8) “Pull My Hair”
9) “A Poetic Retelling Of An Unfortunate Seduction”
10) “Tereza And Tomas”

‘Fevers and Mirrors’
1) “A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And A Necklace”
2) “A Scale, A Mirror, And Those Indifferent Clocks”
3) “The Calendar Hung Itself…”
4) “Something Vague”
5) “The Movement Of A Hand”
6) “Arienette”
7) “When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass”
8) “Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh”
9) “The Center Of The World”
10) “Sunrise, Sunset”
11) “An Attempt To Tip The Scales”
12) “A Song To Pass The Time”