Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
by Bright Eyes
- Type: Album
- Released: 13 August 2002
- Label: Saddle Creek
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:13:23
- Community rating: 3.95/5 from 11 ratings
Artists on this release: Tim Luntzel, Matt Maginn, Clark Baechle, Nick White, Jesse Harris, Nate Walcott, Jason Boesel, Conor Oberst, Emmylou Harris
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground' is a sprawling, wildly ambitious indie folk masterpiece. Conor Oberst employs chaotic orchestral arrangements to back his anxious, deeply poetic, and highly vulnerable lyrical narratives.
Genres
Descriptors: alienation, confessional, orchestral, sprawling, literary, male-vocals, lo-fi, dynamic
Tracklist
- The Big Picture (08:41)
- Method Acting (03:42)
- False Advertising (05:52)
- You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. (03:25)
- Lover I Don't Have to Love (03:59)
- Bowl of Oranges (04:48)
- Don't Know When But a Day is Gonna Come (06:54)
- Nothing Gets Crossed Out (04:34)
- Make War (06:16)
- Waste of Paint (06:29)
- From a Balance Beam (03:40)
- Laura Laurent (04:56)
- Let's Not Shit Ourselves (to Love and to Be Loved) (10:07)
Credits
- Emmylou Harris - Member
- Matt Maginn - Member, design/illustration
- Tim Luntzel - Member
- Clark Baechle - Member
- Jason Boesel - Member
- Jesse Harris - Member
- Conor Oberst - Member, arranged by [horn, strings], guitar, piano, electric piano [rhodes], organ, vocals, written-by, brassarranger, stringsarranger
- Nick White - Member
- Nate Walcott - Member
- Andy LeMaster - arranged by [horn, strings], engineer, brassarranger, stringsarranger
- Mike Mogis - arranged by [horn, strings], mixed by, engineer, brassarranger, stringsarranger, mix
- Doug Van Sloun - mastered by, mastering