Pre-Order Thread

MikeH said:
How are the companion records? I might get the Wide Awake one but not really sure what's on it? Demos and things?
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No, they are new, re-recorded tracks from the album with added features. Phoebe Bridgers, and Waxahatchee were on some of the last ones. I don't think they do a whole lot for anyone who isn't a huge fan, but they're cool. Surprised there's no details on these ones this time.
 
MikeH said:
How are the companion records? I might get the Wide Awake one but not really sure what's on it? Demos and things?
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to quote from their site:
That’s where the nine companion EPs come in. Or as Oberst puts it, “the supplemental reading” for the primary reissues: One six-track EP per reissued album, each featuring five reworked songs from that album. “My thing was they had to sound different from the originals, we had to mess with them in a substantial way.” Plus one cover that felt “of the era” in which that particular albums was made – a song that meant something to the band at the time. To help the EPs come alive in the fullest way, Bright Eyes called in lots of old friends, like Bridgers, M. Ward, and Welch and Rawlings, as well as new ones like Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee.
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For lifted the tracklist is.

1. The Big Picture (Companion Version)
2. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. (Companion Version) 03:51
3. Laura Laurent (Companion Version)
4. Nothing Gets Crossed Out (Companion Version)
5. November (Companion Version)
6. Waste of Paint (Companion Version)

too late, anyway
 
"the Extremes Bright Eyes baked into this era’s releases, extremes that reflected the polar, with-us-or-against-us, fractious feel of the times. The reworked Digital Ash tracks, originally so clean and elegant, are, on the companion EP, full of “harmonica and mandolins – folky vibes,” Oberst says. While the analogue sweetness of the Wide Awake songs have been put through a detached nihilism filter. "
 
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