Bright Eyes have announced a box set. The Studio Albums 2000-2011 will be released on vinyl on CD on September 16th via Saddle Creek. Pre-orders are now up.
The Studio Albums 2000-2011 box set includes remastered versions of Fevers and Mirrors (2000), LIFTED or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002), I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (2005), Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (2005), and Cassadaga (2007). The box set will also include The People’s Key (2011).
The Vinyl Box Set features 6 Albums on 10 LPs pressed at RTI and housed in tip-on jackets, including digital downloads of each album. Vinyl Box Set exclusives include colored vinyl, twelve 8×10 photo prints by Butch Hogan, and an essay by Nathaniel Krenkel.The vinyl box set is limited to 5,000 copies and includes all 10 LPs housed in a foil stamped linen-wrapped box.
The Studio Albums 2000-2011 is also available as a CD box set – limited to 1000 – which will include six CDs housed in a foil stamped linen coated board slip case.
The remastered albums will be available individually on CD and black Vinyl in November. Fevers and Mirrors & Lifted or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground will be released on Nov 4th. I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning & Digital Ash in a Digital Urn & Cassadaga will be released on Nov 11th, 2016 on Saddle Creek.
Bright Eyes are the Omaha, Nebraska-based band led by lauded songwriter Conor Oberst. Recording from the age of 14, Oberst first reached national, and then international, attention with the release of 2000’s Fevers and Mirrors, recorded when he was just 19 years old.The next 11 years saw the band’s output receive widespread critical acclaim, building a huge and dedicated fan following. Between 1998 and 2011 they released nine albums on the Omaha-based independent label Saddle Creek.