Five Dice, All Threes
On the self-produced album, Bright Eyes embrace the elusive quality that
has made them so enduring and influential across generations and genres,
bringing their homespun sound from an Omaha bedroom to devoted
audiences around the world. In Oberst’s songwriting lies a promise that our
loneliest thoughts and feelings can take on grander shapes when passed
between friends, blasted through speakers, or shouted among crowds. This
time around, the band invites such like-minded voices onto the record with
them, with notable guest appearances from Cat Power (“All Threes”), The
National’s Matt Berninger (“The Time I Have Left”), and Alex Orange Drink, the
frontman of the New York punk band The So So Glos, who co-wrote several
songs and shares a climactic verse in the surging “Rainbow Overpass.”
Tracklisting
Side A
1. Five Dice
2. Bells and Whistles
3. El Capitan
4. Bas Jan Ader
5. Tiny Suicides
Side B
6. All Threes
7. Rainbow Overpass
8. Hate
9. Real Feel 105°
Side C
10. Spun Out
11. Trains Still Run on
Time
12. The Time I Have
Left
13. Tin Soldier Boy
Side D - Etching