Bright Eyes by Danny Cohen
Bright Eyes are the latest band to have recorded an at-home edition of NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series.
After releasing Down In The Weeds Where The World Once Was – their first album in a decade – last month, the band performed Mariana Trench, Pan And Broom, Persona Non Grata and Shell Games in a remote studio setting, NPR’s Bob Boilen noting in the YouTube description that in an alternate reality he’d have been watching the band at the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C. right about now.
“Knowing that wasn’t going to happen due to the pandemic, I’m thrilled to have Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott join ‘together’ for a taste of live Bright Eyes,” he writes. “They recorded this Tiny Desk (home) concert with Conor and Mike at ARC Studios in Omaha, Neb., while Nate sits 1,500 miles away at Lucy’s Meat Market, a well-equipped studio in Los Angeles filled with sweet-sounding vintage keyboards. Singing and seated behind him is Becky Stark, better known as Lavender Diamond, along with their daughter.”
