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Oberst to close his Bright Eyes
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 23 July 2009
Conor Oberst has decided to retire his Bright Eyes project after one more album, according his hometown’s newspaper The Omaha World-Herald. This follows an interview with Rolling Stone last month in which he said: “It does feel like it needs to stop at some point. I’d like to clean it up, lock the door, say goodbye”.
Oberst formed Bright Eyes with Mike Mogis, Nate Walcott and a rolling line-up of musicians, mainly pulled in from the Omaha music scene, in 1995. Since then they have recorded eight studio albums. More recently Oberst has recorded two solo albums and started work with “folk rock supergroup” Monsters Of Folk, with Jim James, M. Ward, and Mike Mogis, who are set to release their debut album in September via Rough Trade.
Robb Nansel, President of Saddle Creek (the label founded by Oberst and his brother Justin in 1993), told the Omaha World-Herald: “I think he feels like Bright Eyes has a certain association, for better or worse. I think he’s trying to distance himself a little bit from what that means to people”. He added that plans were afoot to record the final Bright Eyes album early next year, with a view to releasing it in the autumn.
