Bright Eyes: Next Steps

Over his prolific career, Conor Oberst has embarked on ambitious songwriting experiments with his pensive indie folk. He broods with a biblical intensity on the quiet “Don't Know When but a Day Is Gonna Come” and gets heavy over a country shuffle on “I Must Belong Somewhere”. He even explores electronic textures with songs like the orchestral, synth-heavy “Down In a Rabbit Hole”.