Blog: New Music Nation

Note: This is the first album credited to Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band (i.e. the group of musicians that played on Conor's 2008 self-titled album and have been touring with him for the past year). The big difference between this full-length and last year's release is that his bandmates write and sing lead vocals on nearly half the songs, a drastic difference from any of Conor's previous releases as a solo artist or as the mastermind behind Bright Eyes and Desaparecidos...