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While 2002's LIFTED was the record that blew Bright Eyes and its hyper-poetic frontman, Conor Oberst, into the public's consciousness and up the Billboard charts, its predecessor, FEVERS AND MIRRORS, put him on the next-big-thing map. The third ... Full Descriptionofficial album in the band's catalog, FEVERS AND MIRRORS finds Oberst & Co. codifying the vision nascently established on LETTING OFF THE HAPPINESS. Oberst furiously wrestles with his emotions as he upends confessional singer-songwriter tropes while producer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Mogis frames his whims in shifting, episodic textures that include pulsating organs, dulcimers, and vibraphones.
As with all Bright Eyes albums, this one begins and ends with Oberst's strong songwriting and preternatural gift for dramatic, narrative lyricism. "A Scale, A Mirror, and Those Indifferent Clocks" includes the line "Now I know a disease that these doctors can't treat/you contract on the day you accept all you see". Oberst seems to be kicking and screaming against this possibility through a strained larynx--most notably on the anthemically strung-out "Calendar Hung Itself" and the eruptive refrains of "Sunrise Sunset". While "Something Vague" and "Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh" each predict the operatic alt.country the band would perfect on CASSADEGA. Here Oberst is still embracing his influences--openly channeling Eliot Smith on the opening track and SISTER LOVERS-era Alex Chilton on "The Center of the World". Arguably, pound for pound the best Bright Eyes album, FEVERS AND MIRRORS captures Oberst before the masses did.
3rd Full Length;"Well-Crafted Lyrics With Haunting Music"
Recorded at Dead Space, Lincoln, Nebraska in December 1999.
Bright Eyes: Connor Oberst (vocals, guitar, Fender Rhodes piano, organ, keyboards, percussion, samples); Andy Lemaster (vocals, guitar, Mellotron, bass, percussion); Mike Mogis (acoustic & electric guitar, pedal steel, E-bow, mandolin, piano, organ, keyboards, vibraphone, glockenspiel, tambourine, electronics); Jiha Lee (flute); Tim Kasher (accordion); A.J. Mogis (piano); Todd Baechle (keyboards); Matt Maginn (bass); Joe Knapp (drums, percussion); Clint Schnase (drums).
Magnet (6-7/00, p.70) - "...An unlikely heir to Big Star's THIRD, Violent Femmes' first and the whole Mark Eitzel catalog....borrowing tasteful playing, ambitious production and some of the nicest microphones the boys could get their hands on..."
CMJ (7/00, p.49) - "...A superb album, articulate and powerful on the subject of teenage heartbreak and self-loathing, and played...with confidence and subtlety..."
Melody Maker (7/22/00, p.52) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Spine-shivering....it'll make you break out into a thousand gruesome goosebumps....the diary of traumatised soul..."
NME (Magazine) (7/8/00, p.27) - 7 out of 10 - "...A godsend for connoisseurs of raging f***-ups and the dubious benefits of a Catholic education....this is a tragicomedy that manages to be oddly affecting even at its most outlandish." Hide Description Fevers And Mirrors Music | List Price | $12.97 (You save $2.92) | | Category | Rock Albums, Rock/Pop CDs, Singer/Songwriter | | Label | Saddle Creek | | Orig Year | 2000 | | All Time Sales Rank |  8836  | | CD Universe Part number | 1209942 | | Catalog number | 32 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | May 30, 2000 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Mike Mogis; Andy LeMaster | | Engineer | Mike Mogis; Andy LeMaster | | Personnel | Conor Oberst - vocals, guitar, Fender Rhodes piano, organ, keyboards, percussion, samples
Mike Mogis - acoustic & electric guitar, pedal steel, E-bow, mandolin, piano, organ, keyboards, vibraphone, glockenspiel, tambourine, electronics
Andy LeMaster - vocals, guitar, Mellotron, bass, percussion
Tim Kasher - accordion
Matt Maginn - bass
A.J. Mogis - piano
Todd Baechle - keyboards
Jiha Lee - flute
Clint Schnase - drums
Joe Knapp - drums, percussion
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Bright Eyes Fevers And Mirrors Songs
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| |   | 1. | Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever and a Necklace, A  |
| 2. | Scale, A Mirror and Those Indifferent Clocks, A |
| 3. | Calendar Hung Itself..., The |
| 4. | Something Vague |
| 5. | Movement of a Hand, The |
| 6. | Arienette |
| 7. | When the Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass |
| 8. | Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh |
| 9. | Center of the World, The |
| 10. | Sunrise, Sunset |
| 11. | Attempt to Tip the Scales, An |
| 12. | Song to Pass the Time, A |
| Fevers And Mirrors Music Review Average Rating: (4.7 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews WOW
Just to tell you now that i dont listen to too much rock and indie but i saw them in concert and they are amazing this album is also one of the best albums that they have and i really suggest getting this one over some of the other ones
Submitted by finnie_joseph (Imperial Beach) 
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 pleasurable listening ahead
it's nice to know that someone out there is still writing great lyrics. extremely emotional singing combined with an intersting musical style. highly recommend.
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Bright Eyes for bright souls...
Whatever pain you have felt Mr. Oberst has felt with you, and will make you feel like somone can relate. This album is beautiful and a MUST have. Don't question, just order.
Submitted by a reviewer (Massilln, OH, USA)
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Fevers and Mirrors is the pinacle of the Bright Eyes' raw, acoustic, and tortured pre-Lifted stylings. You can see the roots of this record in earlier songs like "A Poetic Retelling of an Unfortunate Seduction" and "The Awful Sweetness of Escaping Sweat." Later records are more refined, more fully composed musically, but none continue to haunt me with lyrics like "the choices were given, now you must live them, or just not live." My favorite CD for the past 7 years, and not likely to be bested.
Submitted by dannymac83online (Washington, DC, USA)
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the only good songs are when the curious girl..., sunrise sunset, and a song to pass the time. the rest are just really unremarkable. buy lifted and im wide awake, dont worry about this one.
Submitted by andrew (philly)
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