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Thursday, 19 July 2007 |
Music Reviews Artist: Bright EyesTitle: Hot KnivesLabel: Polydor
 Conor Oberst’s project Bright Eyes is a constantly sonically evolving being, generating rapturous reviews and unleashing a sonic palette not merely constrained to the whimsical field off Americana. So practised a genre-hopper is he, that the Nebraskan manages to squeeze more than a few even across a two song release such as this.
Hot Knives has a hint of Marc Bolan in the vocals and more than a touch of West Coast psychedelia in the out of tune distorted guitars and string-laden under current. With Bright Eyes though, it is not to focus on the individual sounds though, more to immerse yourself in the space and time he creates. The aforementioned genre-hopping skills means that there is a timeless quality to his music that prevents it being fixed in any one era, it’s a smorgasbord of pop culture.
Having said that the second track ‘If the brakeman turns my way’ immediately points to The Flaming Lips and the melodic articulation of Bob Dylan and The Byrds. It’s like whizzing through the dial but always ending up with a tuneful and eclectic radio station that all sound different but the same.
Words By: Mark Steel
Editor review : Smorgasbord of styles
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3.4 |
| Originality
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3.0 |
| Lyrics
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3.0 |
| Memorability
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4.0 |
| Melody
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4.0 |
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3.0 |
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