Fevers and Mirrors
Occupation
Conor Oberst Mike Mogis more studio musician: see below
Fevers and Mirrors is the third album by Bright Eyes. It was the end of 1999 in the Presto! Taken Recording Studios in Lincoln, Nebraska and released in May 2000 on Saddle Creek.
Title list
After the penultimate song on Attempt to Tip the Scales follows a gefaketes radio interview with singer Conor Oberst. In reality imitates Todd Baechle ( The Faint of ) the voice of Colonel. The interviewer is Matt Silcock. Whereas the content of the interview, the listener can guess that the interview is probably faked, however, already.
Reception
The album made it like its predecessors, not in the U.S. album chart, but received mostly positive reviews already in publication. So forgave approximately Allmusic 4.5 of 5 points and compared the style of the album with bands like Radiohead, Blur, and Suede. Same time it was also noted that the album "lo - fi " sounds. In the New Musical Express, the album received a 7- / 10th
Pitchfork Media gave the album release in contrast with a score of 5.2 out of 10 possible points, a rather average rating. However, it abolished the album at Pitchfork later after all, ranked 170 of the best albums of the 2000s and the song The Calendar Hung Itself ... at number 252 of the best songs of the 2000s.
Musicians involved
- Conor Oberst - Guitar, piano, rhodes, organ, vocals, among others
- Mike Mogis - vibraphone, glockenspiel, mandolin, piano, percussion, among others
- Tim Kasher - The Accordion
- Jiha Lee - flute, vocals
- Andy LeMaster - vocals, bass, guitar, percussion, Mellotron
- AJ Mogis - Piano
- Clint Schnase - drums
- Todd Baechle - Keyboard
- Joe Knapp - drums, percussion, vocals
- Matt Maginn - bass