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  Bright Eyes: Fevers and Mirrors: Pitchfork Record Review
Fevers and Mirrors is home to the sophomoric musical meanderings of a young songwriter who seems to take himself far too seriously.
And in a sign of lackluster songwriting, far too many of the songs on Fevers and Mirrors fall victim to the predictability problem of vocals following the bassline at all times.
"A Scale, A Mirror, and Those Indifferent Clocks," "Arienette," and "The Center of the World" are all paradigm cases of this trait despite being pleasant enough songs.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/b/bright-eyes/fevers-and-mirrors.shtml   (759 words)

  
  Fevers and Mirrors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fevers and Mirrors is the third album by Bright Eyes.
The man interviewing is Matt Silcock, a former member of Lullaby for the Working Class.
"A Spindle, a Darkness, a Fever, and a Necklace" (6:28)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fevers_and_Mirrors   (262 words)

  
 Fevers & Mirrors | Classical Music Online
The most focused and conceptually complete release to date, Bright Eyes' 'Fevers and Mirrors' is a modern day masterpiece from one of the most important songwriters of our time.
Fevers and Mirrors is conor oberst's seemingly transition album.
I went back and bought Fevers and Mirrors on the strength of the previous two albums I'd heard, Lifted and I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, and was immediately glad that I took a chance on this one.
www.onlineclassical.com /ItemId/B00004TRWE   (494 words)

  
 Bright Eyes - Fevers & Mirrors (Saddle Creek)
While you can't really say Conor Oberst's (aka "Jeff Mangum at 19") new album, Fevers and Mirrors, has become "modern rock," it certainly is a lot less unobjectionable than his previous songs.
Also, some people are turned off by his strained flutter of a voice that becomes even more strained and more fluttered as he sings with more power, volume, and emotion.
Fevers and Mirrors seems to be a lot more even though, in music, lyrics, and voice.
www.fakejazz.com /reviews/2000/brighteyes.shtml   (370 words)

  
 FEVERS AND MIRRORS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
But on Fever and Mirrors, which should be his breakout album, he steps into a full-fledged studio to record a set of songs that benefit greatly from the dynamics that only a proper mike compressor can offer.
But it's hard to fault an album with a song as passionate as "The Calendar Hung Itself," a ricocheting samba about a guy who'd probably be stalking his ex if he hadn't hit the road.
In a Chicago hotel, he gives up, phones her, and sings, menacingly, "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine." That kind of frightening moment makes Fevers and Mirrors one of the most rewarding indie-rock releases so far this year.
www.worcesterphoenix.com /archive/music/00/05/26/OTR/BRIGHT_EYES.html   (173 words)

  
 Fevers and Mirrors Music at Shop Ireland
the beautiful melancholy of 'Fevers and Mirrors' (the first uk album release) demonstrates his inticate and delicate music and songwriting skills to the full.
The first song I heard was The Calendar Hung Itself, on a classic rock radio station, and I remember being so moved by his voice and feeling that I NEEDED more...
Fevers And Mirrors is my first Bright Eyes album, but I certainly intend to get more.
www.shopireland.ie /music/reviews/B00004U690   (584 words)

  
 Audiogalaxy - Review of Bright Eyes
Though Fevers and Mirrors, the newest Bright Eyes album, is musically beguiling chamber-pop ear candy, glimmering with vibes, pedal steel, mellotron, and flutes, Oberst’s fearless tunneling into depression undermines any attempts at toe-tapping.
These songs make you feel alive the way you did in high school, when every emotion was so epic it seemed like it was going to swallow you, when you were an ugly, squirming knot of humanity, tossed here and there by opposing emotions made almost indistinguishable by their sheer intensity.
In many ways, Fevers and Mirrors skulks around in the same territory as uber-brooders the Cure, but the album manages to retain all the power of its mopey forefathers while emerging untouched by their excesses.
www.audiogalaxy.com /pages/review.php?SID=&band_id=83179   (675 words)

  
 The Great Depression: Bright Eyes' Albums Reveal a Dark Soul
The new Fevers and Mirrors (released on Saddle Creek Records, an indie label based in the singer's hometown of Omaha, Neb.) is Oberst's best and bleakest effort to date.
The even more accomplished Fevers and Mirrors was recorded by Mike Mogis and Andy Lemaster over the course of a month in late 1999, with help from members of Cursive and Lullaby for the Working Class and others.
Fevers and Mirrors also makes it hard to interview the Bright Eyes frontperson, because the definitive Oberst interview is included between the last two songs on the album.
www.citypaper.com /music/story.asp?id=8315   (748 words)

  
 Guestbook
i bought fevers and mirrors a couple of weeks ago when i was down in madison...
Fevers and Mirrors is my album of the year, if I believed in such a thing.
Fevers and mirrors has taken over my cd player and i cant seem to listen to anything else.
www.speakeasy.org /~pjohnson/guest/guestbook.html   (1642 words)

  
 Bright Eyes: Fevers and Mirrors: Pitchfork Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Fevers and Mirrors is home to the sophomoric musical meanderings of a young songwriter who seems to take himself far too seriously.
"A Scale, A Mirror, and Those Indifferent Clocks," "Arienette," and "The Center of the World" are all paradigm cases of this trait despite being pleasant enough songs.
The instrumentation is diverse and tastefully orchestrated by the large cast, and it's clear that a great deal of thought and talent has been contributed to its making.
pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/b/bright-eyes/fevers-and-mirrors.shtml   (628 words)

  
 816am - ALBUM REVIEWS: "Bright Eyes - Fevers & Mirrors"
"Fevers and Mirrors" is actually the third full-length release by Bright Eyes from a catalog of five albums, the latest being "Lifted".
Upon their break-up they split into two bands Cursive and Lullaby for the Working Class, as well as creating their own label Saddle Creek Records, on which all of their future albums would be released.
In reviews I have read of "Fevers and Mirrors" the album is usually described as brooding, self-depreciating and largely it is. Typically this would seem to be a perfect description, just another introverted kid trying to primp and pose on the Emo scene.
www.816am.net /album_reviews.php?id=69   (561 words)

  
 Rocket-Fuel - Online Music Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Fevers and Mirrors is suddenly about you, too.
Yes, it is all that, and it’s the packaging of the CD, and its mirror staring back at me, it says, “What you see here is in me. What is in here is in you.” And I did not give my permission, nor can I take credit for its indiscriminate perfection, clarity, or incompleteness.
Maybe it is with fevers and in mirrors that we see things as they are, untouched or helpless, and maybe it is also with music like this.
www.rocket-fuel.com /reviews/index.php?ID=352   (718 words)

  
 PMFS BB - bright eyes?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
the only two full lengths i own by him are "fevers and mirrors" and "lifted or the story is in the soil, keep your ear to the ground", and i think the latter is much better, mainly because he co-wrote a few of the songs with tim kasher of cursive.
Fevers and mirrors is pretty good but i dont have it on regular rotation or anything, i cant listen to it to much.
I may be mistaken, but I think that mr kasher stars on accordian on fevers and mirrors, but as I say, I could be wrong, I could have dreamt it!
www.pmfs.net /bb/printthread.php?t=776&pp=40   (1008 words)

  
 Boulder Weekly | Buzz | HighDecibel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
His recent Bright Eyes releases, 2002's Lifted, or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground and this year's blockbuster double release, I'm Wide Awake, it's Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, have finally garnered Oberst the success he deserves.
But the album that defined his legacy was 2000's Fevers and Mirrors.
On Fevers and Mirrors, the maturity of Oberst's tortured off-key vocalizations put him in the esteemed company of fellow troubled folker Paul Westerberg.
www.boulderweekly.com /archive/070705/highdecibel.html   (821 words)

  
 Saddle Creek Reviews
Which isn't to say that Fevers and Mirrors is solely for immature Gen X-ers.
Fevers and Mirrors manages to convey a deep understanding of both the beauty and tragedy of life.
Fevers is an acoustic affair for the most part, with a variety of instruments (glockenspiel, accordion, steel guitar, dulcimer, etc.) adding atmosphere and texture.
www.saddle-creek.com /bands/reviews.php?id_number=220   (663 words)

  
 Bright Eyes: Fevers and Mirrors Aversion.com Review
Bright EyesFevers and Mirrors sings to that lethargic and grim region held deep inside our breasts.
Sometimes, however, the band falters, most notably in its gratuitous use of tape and samples, opening up the album with a segement read by a child out of a juvenile novel and throwing in an unbearably bungled radio interview before "A Song to Pass the Time," making this record lose much of its momentum.
"Fevers and Mirrours" is the best album ever recorded, if only because it's the best album Bright Eyes has ever recorded.
www.aversion.com /bands/reviews.cfm?f_id=210   (461 words)

  
 Fevers and Mirrors - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
Fevers and Mirrors is the third album by Bright Eyes.
"A Spindle, a Darkness, a Fever, and a Necklace" (6:28)
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Fevers_and_Mirrors   (136 words)

  
 DOA - Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
Fevers and Mirrors is his third full-length album as Bright Eyes and the follow-up to last year's well-received Every Day and Every Night EP.
The songs are not so much played as orchestrated, with a variety of instrumentation and a structure that's amazingly full and verbose.
Fevers and Mirrors will likely show up on many people's best of the year list, and I expect it to be near the top of mine.
www.adequacy.net /review.php?reviewID=611   (654 words)

  
 Bright Eyes - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
It Is with 'Fevers and Mirrors', the third full-length and follow up to last years 'Every Day And Every Night EP', that we can all see where Conor and crew have been heading.
Conor Oberst and friends had the luxury of spending over a month recording 'Fevers and Mirrors' on to 24-tracks at Dead Space Studios (owned and operated by Lullaby for the working class' Mogis brothers).
The most focused and conceptually complete release to date, Bright Eyes' 'Fevers and Mirrors' is a modern day masterpiece from one of the most important songwriters of our time.
music.download.com /brighteyes/3600-8591_32-100363946.html   (774 words)

  
 CHURCH FATHERS: On the Resurrection of the Flesh (Tertullian)
For the stellar rays are rekindled, which had been quenched in the morning glow; the distant groups of the constellations are again brought back to view, which the day's temporary interval had removed out of sight.
Readorned also are the mirrors of the moon, which her monthly course had worn away.
He, of course, has already quitted the grave of his own corpse--although he is even now liable to fevers and ulcers; he, too, has already trodden down his enemies--although he has even now to struggle with the powers of the world.
www.newadvent.org /fathers/0316.htm   (13345 words)

  
 Tucson Weekly: Looking For The Light (September 21 - September 27, 2000)
The Bright Eyes nom de plume belongs to one Conors Oberst, who seemingly employs anyone around to guest on his records (previous appearances by Neutral Milk Hotel and Of Montreal members would lead you to believe he's a fellow Elephant 6er, but that semi-ubiquitous logo is nowhere to be found).
Oberst's forte is plumbing the depths of the murky human condition so empathetically that his words and melodies somehow become transcendently joyous.
Fevers and Mirrors is, to be sure, a "mood album," but if you're in that kind of a mood, it will feel so utterly comfortable and comforting that you can't imagine listening to anything else.
www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/2000-09-21/mus.html   (753 words)

  
 Classics | Bright Eyes - Fevers & Mirrors « Shameless Complacency
Fevers and Mirrors is also home to a stylistic tool that Bright Eye’s seems to have discarded recently; lyrical and instrumental aggression.
That’s an ailment that Fevers cannot be said to have; at times, it seems to leap straight at you, and sucker-punch you right in the gut.
Above all else, I love Fevers and Mirrors because it’s a mood album.
shamelesscomplacency.wordpress.com /2007/04/23/classics-bright-eyes-fevers-mirrors   (507 words)

  
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A Spindle, a Darkness, a Fever and a Necklace
A Scale, a Mirror and Those Indifferent Clocks
www.1ting.com /album/86/album_9019.html   (78 words)

  
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Now your new album 'Fevers and Mirrors'; tell us a little about the title.
A: Well, the fever is basically whatever ails you or oppresses you.
A: And the mirror is just, as you might guess, self examination or reflection in whatever form, this could be vanity or self loathing.
www.angelfire.com /nb/ptimmy/conversation.html   (724 words)

  
 Bright Eyes - Fevers & Mirrors Review - sputnikmusic
Fevers & Mirrors feels like one of those projects come up with in a holed up studio with nobody but Conor and a few instruments.
Enough though I thought it was after his first few albums, this repeated reference to his life, but even so its still enjoyed always to hear what he has to say.
Conor's guitar is like a little brother on Fevers, and proves itself as such by helping him along and showing his vocals the way, direction and proper spot.
www.sputnikmusic.com /album.php?reviewid=8648   (2003 words)

  
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Fans and journalists have used similar adjectives to describe Bright Eyes' style - especially on last year's Fevers and Mirrors, a cohesive, beautifully-orchestrated and alarmingly intelligent collection of songs that give voice to that volatile period in life after you realize that you're all alone, but before it hits you that everyone else is, too.
It was Fevers and Mirrors that definitively thrust Bright Eyes out of the relative quiet of Omaha, NE and isolated groups of music fans "in the know," and into the spotlight of the independent rock community at large.
Bright Eyes' four songs on the record are more musically understated than those on Fevers and Mirrors.
centerstage.net /writers/isaac/brighteyes.html   (636 words)

  
 In Music We Trust - Bright Eyes: Fevers and Mirrors
Frontman Conor Oberst delivers heart-wrenching performances track after track, as his bleeding heart voice and heart-on-the-sleeve lyrics permeate the songs, giving them the distinct edge that make them Bright Eyes tunes.
On Fevers and Mirrors Oberst and company reach deep into their souls to capture the awkwardness, insecurities, and confusion of youth, re-telling them with a folk-pop backdrop etching them into your conscious.
The noise of "The Calendar Hung Itself" bleeds into the trembling tenderness of "Something Vague," where Oberst's voice tries to overcome its uneasiness to capture the pain running through his brain as he sings the words that help him deal with his inner self.
www.inmusicwetrust.com /articles/32r04.html   (242 words)

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