Shiny Eyes
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Shiny Eyes
Nik Freitas/Courtesy of the artist
- “Bells and Whistles”
- “First Day of My Life”
- “El Capitan”
In some unspecified time in the future or one other, you’ve got most likely been advised to “imagine in your self.” It sounds so easy, proper? Simply imagine in your self! However it’s not all the time simple — even when you may have a number of proof that claims you need to.
Conor Oberst of Shiny Eyes has a ton of proof pointing to the truth that he is a good songwriter: a lifetime of writing music, an unlimited again catalogue, and followers who hold on his each phrase.
However, in at present’s session, you may hear Oberst discuss how when he finishes a track, he is by no means actually positive if he’ll write one other one once more.
“After you end a challenge, or a document, or a batch of songs, there may be all the time that bizarre doom and gloom in your thoughts the place you might be, like, ‘Oh, that may by no means occur once more. There aren’t any extra songs,’ ” he says.
Oberst additionally talks in regards to the issues that do get him writing, like collaborating with folks he admires. Plus, he talks about his new album with Shiny Eyes, known as 5 Cube, All Threes.
The dwell performances you may hear at present had been recorded at a warm-up present that Shiny Eyes did again in September. Their tour was cancelled for the autumn, however has since restarted. We caught up with Oberst simply earlier than the band went again out on the highway this winter.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The online story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.