Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (w/ guest host Andrew Kolbenschlag and guest Eric Nelson)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2015

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

While Brian is out on tour with his band, The Paper Jets, Bill invites friend of the podcast, musician, and songwriter Andrew Kolbenschlag to fill in as guest co-host! Joining us is musician/songwriter Eric Nelson from The Lights Beneath (hear their whole debut album at www.thelightsbeneath.com) to talk about Bright Eyes' Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (Saddle Creak, 2005). Released as a companion to the slightly more commercially successful, folk influenced album I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, "Digital" took the opposite approach to Conor Oberst's stark, honest lyrics and nestled them amongst computer programming and digital instrumentation. Bill, Andrew, and Eric discuss their reasoning for talking about this album over other Bright Eyes' albums, breathing fetishes, electronic music production, death and drug use as themes on the album, and more as we talk about what makes this album great and then get into a track by track review of it!

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0:00.0	First with your hands, then with your mouth,
0:05.0	A down pour sweat, damn cotton clouds, I was a fool, you were my friend, we made it happen.
0:18.0	You took off your clothes left on the light
0:23.6	You stood there so brave you used to be shot
0:26.6	Each feature and broom
0:28.6	Each movement refined and eyes like a showroom
0:33.6	That was spreading out the blankets on the beach
0:40.3	Well, that weather man's alive
0:45.3	He said it would be raining
0:49.3	But it's clear and blue as far as I can see.
0:58.0	Hello, welcome to the great albums podcast. I'm Bill.
1:02.0	And today, Brian is leaving to go on a small tour with his band The Paper Jets.
1:10.0	So instead, we have brought in friend of the show, bandmate of mine, Andrew Colbenshlog, as our guest host.
1:17.8	Hello.
1:18.6	Welcome to the podcast, Andrew.
1:19.9	Thank you, Bill.
1:20.5	Thanks for having me again.
1:22.1	It's an honor to be guest host.
1:24.1	And I'm sorry that you said what Brian was doing because I was going to claim to have killed him in the style of the Highlander and assumed his role as host. And I'm sorry that you said what Brian was doing because I was going to claim to have
1:27.8	killed him in the style of the Highlander and assumed his role as host. But there can be only one
1:34.2	apparently. Well, too, I guess. But no, it's good to be back. And we also have a guest with us,
1:41.1	Eric Nelson. Hello. Thanks for having me, Bill. Thank you for being here. You are a
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