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| | Digital Ash in a Digital Urn | | | Music Artist : | | Bright Eyes | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Saddle Creek | | Release Date : | | 2005-01-25 | | Store Price : | | $12.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $12.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Time Code
2. Gold Mine Gutted
3. Arc Of Time (Time Code)
4. Down In A Rabbit Hole - (with Nick Zinner)
5. Take It Easy (Love Nothing)
6. Hit The Switch
7. I Believe In Symmetry - (with Nick Zinner)
8. Devil In The Details - (with Nick Zinner)
9. Ship In A Bottle
10. Light Pollution
11. Theme From Pinata
12. Easy/Lucky/Free - (with Nick Zinner)
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Best Bright Eyes Album
Submitted on: 2009-10-05 |
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| Great album... enough said. Always been a favorite of mine. Can make me feel warm & fuzzy, nostalgic, and cry. |
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 Worst Album Ever Produced By Man
Submitted on: 2009-02-16 |
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This is a special edition "Six-Word" reveiw:
"Digital @$$ Taking a Digital Sh!%"
Thank you. |
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 Not their best album but still worhtwhile
Submitted on: 2009-01-28 |
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| This one is not as good as Cassadaga or the Story is in the Soil but it is still pretty good. |
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This is great (and he can do better)
Submitted on: 2008-04-10 |
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| Digital Ash is a bittersweet symphony. It is the warbling voice of Conor Oberst lurking somewhere in resignation between hope and despair. It is a dark work of art that plays hide and seek with electronic shadows and acoustic lights. It is, perhaps, his "Sgt Pepper's" and what's scary is that he can do better. And he no doubt will. |
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Don't smash this beautiful pinata!
Submitted on: 2007-11-06 |
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The drum loop and synth-heavy instrumentation heard on most of the songs on this album, simply doesn't work. And for the most part, this isn't a major problem. All of Bright Eyes' typical stong points are present and accounted for, here. Digital Ash... features stylish takes on simple folk song structure, a level of personal honesty that is hardly replicated in the best of Jackson Browne, and tight lyrics that constantly possess a certain biting edge, while retaining tone within each song. Perhaps this album would have received better reception if it had been released a few months before I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, and under a different title. That way, even though the unconventional instrumentation would have still been recognised, the record wouldn't have so tempted critics to consider it a throwaway, nonserious attempt at adding to the Bright Eyes canon. "Hit the Switch" would have been a great title for this album, since the entire record explores the themes outlined in that song.
In the song "Hit The Switch," Conor sings about the easy dismissability of his friends, when the pattern which he had previously imposed on the development of his relationship with them "all stops making sense." In the song "Take it Easy (Love Nothing)," the narrator has accustomed himself to using the phrase "Take it easy." when he wants to shame a potential lover for having feelings for him, while if he were more honest, his catchphrase would have instead been "I love nothing." And what is his justification for having been driven to adopt this popular, yet subtly-sociopathic attitide? Well, he was romantically rejected. Once. Poor him.
During many of these songs, Conor 'tells it like it is' in a way that he hasn't since many of his early b-sides, like "A Perfect Sonnet," "Amy in the White Coat," and "Soon You'll Be Leaving Your Man." Here, rather than focusing on the finer points of emotion caused by feelings of being oppressed by reality, the focus is specifically on personal disingenuity, and these songs criticize it ruthlessly. This may be one of the weaker Bright Eyes albums, but it is still solidly with five-star territory, and if you doubt it, pretend that it came out under a different name, either before or after "I'm Wide Awake..." and just listen to the songs, and to the album as though it were "the new one."
Digital Ash... is a beautiful collection of insensitive music for sensitive listeners. And if you enjoy any of the band's other albums, you should discover that it truly does belong alongside them. |
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