Letting Off The Happiness

Release Date: May 27, 2022

Bright Eyes' Letting Off The Happiness (1998) captures Conor Oberst's raw bedroom recordings and basement sessions, mixing four-track intimacy with Mike Mogis' careful overdubs of keyboards, pedal steel, and electric drums. The album moves between whispered confessions and emotional outbursts, all wrapped in lo-fi production that makes every crack in Oberst's voice feel like a secret being shared.

Mood: late night, introspective, melancholic, intimate