Conor Oberst - "Milk Thistle"

This is my favorite song on Conor Oberst's (the guy who is Bright Eyes) new self-titled LP.



As for the rest of the album, it's all right; a lot of it is pretty upbeat, some if it is actually fun, knee-slapping hoe-down music...interesting, works some of the time (e.g. Cape Canaveral, Sausalito). Other forays are rockier; overall, this is one of his poppiest releases...you decide if that's the kind of Oberst you want to hear. But this closer is Oberst at his best: melancholy. His music has so many more layers down there in the depths of negative affect.