I have powerful connections to that song you’ll never understand!! including being drunk on a cruise ship and playing that song at some of my darkest moments... lol
the gentlemens pact EP was probably my fav thing to come out of that era. the title track and breezy are both up there with some of his best songs. breezy, especially.
Crazy that it’s only been 8 years. It feels so much longer, probably because of the insane amount of output Conor has
I know that Mogis hasn't been on everything he's put out since People's Key, but I feel like a lot of his solo stuff could very well have been released as Bright Eyes.
Bright Eyes was the “band” I followed religiously in high school. But I never ever got into The People’s Key. Maybe listened to it once.
I still think Peoples Key was a weird way to bookend the Bright Eyes project but if it really is the end, i look back on it super fondly. chronologically it's fun to listen through each album and listen to conor grow up. you can see his progression as a person through his whole discog's timeline.
People's Key is a very good record, not great but its solid. I think Ladder Song, Jejune Stars, Approximate Sunlight and Halie Selassie are all great tracks. I even like Firewall as a good slow building opener. I think bright eyes fans just wanted them to do something different than what they got. Never understood the hate for this album.
Then A Collection of Songs, Letting Off the Happiness, Lifted, and Fevers and Mirrors ain't Bright Eyes.
It’s because there’s five good to great songs and five meh ones, it was billed as the “Last Bright Eyes Album” after four years off, and it came after a near-flawless run of albums and EPs. This ain’t hard.