Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005): CD Flamin' Groovies and leads into a pair

and leads into a pair of legendary artists to close this album

An artist who has lost his great love while struggling with his faith in an increasingly hostile world teetering on self-destruction

It is also his first collaboration with composer Jim Steinman and producer Todd Rundgren

The cover is a direct reference to the woman who was seen around the world giving sunflower seeds to Russian soldiers and telling them to carry them in their pockets

A longer period in the studio afforded the time to experiment

Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005): CD Flamin' Groovies and leads into a pairOne of the things that struck Oberst as he and the band went through twenty plus years of music is that he may in fact have been writing the same song this whole time. Not sonically, of course, but conceptually. This last wave contains, in Noise Floor, early Bright Eyes songs so raw Oberst never even released them back in the day, as well as, in Cassadaga and The Peoples Key, the bands most polished and sophisticated albums. When Bright Eyes toured