{"id":2333,"date":"2020-06-23T14:30:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T13:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2020-06-23T14:03:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T13:03:25","slug":"bright-eyes-down-in-the-weeds-where-the-world-once-was-21aug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/bright-eyes-down-in-the-weeds-where-the-world-once-was-21aug\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-sale of the week: Bright Eyes \u2013 <em>Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was<\/em>, out 21 August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Bright Eyes - Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/bright-eyes-down-in-the-weeds-where-the-world-once-was\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centre aligncenter\" title=\"Bright Eyes - Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/offer\/2008\/BrightEyes.jpg\" alt=\"Bright Eyes - Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lone pair of footsteps meanders down a street in Omaha, into the neighbourhood bar and then into a near-imperceptible tangle of conversations \u2013 about wars, sleepless nights \u2013 a surrealist din pushing against the sound of ragtime. Then, as the background quiets, a line rings out clearly: \u201c<em>I think about how much people need \u2013 what they need right now is to feel like there\u2019s something to look forward to. We have to hold on. We have to hold on.<\/em>\u201d Thus we enter the fitting, cacophonic introduction to <strong>Bright Eyes<\/strong>\u2019 tenth studio album and first release since 2011. <strong><em>Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was<\/em><\/strong> is an enormous record caught in the profound in-between of grief and clarity \u2013 one arm wrestling its demons, the other gripping the hand of love, in spite of it.<\/p>\n<p>The end of Bright Eyes\u2019 unofficial hiatus came naturally. Conor Oberst pitched the idea of getting the band back together during a 2017 Christmas party at Bright Eyes bandmate Nathaniel Walcott\u2019s Los Angeles home. The two huddled in the bathroom and called Mike Mogis, who was Christmas shopping at an Omaha mall. Mogis immediately said yes. There was no specific catalyst for the trio, aside from finding comfort amidst a decade of brutal change. Sure, \u2018Why now?\u2019 is the question, but for a project whose friendship is at the core, it was simply: \u2018Why not?\u2019<\/p>\n<p><em>Note<\/em>: the LP is available on indies-only <strong>transparent red\/transparent blue vinyl<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re offering <a title=\"Bright Eyes - Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/bright-eyes-down-in-the-weeds-where-the-world-once-was\"><em>Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was<\/em><\/a> at <strong class=\"darkred\">special pre-sale prices<\/strong>, which won\u2019t be available after release. <a title=\"Bright Eyes - Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/bright-eyes-down-in-the-weeds-where-the-world-once-was\">Click here<\/a> for more details and to order your copy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lone pair of footsteps meanders down a street in Omaha, into the neighbourhood bar and then into a near-imperceptible tangle of conversations \u2013 about wars, sleepless nights \u2013 a surrealist din pushing against the sound of ragtime. Then, as the background quiets, a line rings out clearly: \u201cI think about how much people need&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,159],"tags":[1454,36,829,830,194],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-promotions","tag-bright-eyes","tag-new-release","tag-pre-sale-of-the-week","tag-pre-sale-offers","tag-special-offer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2340,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions\/2340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}