Cassadaga (album)

Cassadaga
Studio album by Bright Eyes
Publication (s)	April 2007
Label (s)	Saddle Creek (USA), Polydor (rest of the world)
Format (s)	CD , double LP
Genre (s)	Folk , indie rock , alternative country , songwriter
Title (number)	13
running time	approx. 62 minutes
occupation	Conor Colonel Mike Mogis Nate Walcott other studio musicians: see below
production	Mike Mogis
Studio (s)	Presto! Recording Studios - Lincoln , New York City , Portland
chronology Noise Floor (Rarities 1998-2005) (2006) Cassadaga The People's Key (2011)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Cassadaga   DE 19th 04/23/2007 (4 weeks)   AT 47 04/20/2007 (3 weeks)   CH 59 04/22/2007 (2 weeks)   UK 13 04/21/2007 (3 weeks)   US 4th 04/28/2007 (10 weeks)

Cassadaga is an album by the band Bright Eyes . It was released in April 2007.

Album title

The album is named after the place Cassadaga in Florida. The small place is a center for spiritism (the belief in contact with spirits of the dead).

Recording and artwork

The album was recorded in the Presto! Studios in Lincoln , Nebraska, and other studios in New York City and Portland . As with many Bright Eyes albums before , the producer was Mike Mogis , who has even been listed as a permanent member of the band since 2005.

The artwork is by Zack Nipper . It contains hidden proverbs in different languages ​​(including English, Russian, Greek and Portuguese) that can be made visible with the help of a decoder. In 2008, the artwork won the Grammy Award in the Best Recording Package category .

Charts

The album debuted at number 4 on the Billboard 200 - the best chart position of a Bright Eyes album to date. In the first week it reached 58,000 sales in the US.

In other countries, too, the album reached top positions in the album charts (see chart box).

reception

Cassadaga was received mostly positively by the critics. It received four out of five points at laut.de. The English Rolling Stone also awarded four out of five points and later listed the album at number 12 of the best albums of 2007 by Rolling Stone.

Other critical ratings are, for example, a 6 out of 10 at Pitchfork Media or four out of five points at Allmusic .

In the German music magazine Visions , Cassadaga received an average of 8 out of 12 from ten ratings. Dennis Plauk , however, wrote in his review: Conor [Colonel] has room for improvement . Compared to “ Wide Awake ... ”, “Cassadaga” is the worse album [...].

Track list

(All songs written by Conor Oberst unless otherwise stated.)

1. " Clairaudients (Kill or Be Killed) " - 6:08
2. " Four Winds " - 4:16
3. " If the Brakeman Turns My Way " (Conor Oberst and Jason Boesel ) - 4:53
4. " Hot Knives " - 4:13
5. " Make a Plan to Love Me " - 4:14
6. " Soul Singer in a Session Band " - 4:14
7. " Classic Cars " - 4:19
8. " Middleman " - 4:49
9. " Cleanse Song " - 3:28
10. " No One Would Riot for Less " - 5:12
11. " Coat Check Dream Song " (Conor Oberst and Nate Walcott ) - 4:10
12. " I Must Belong Somewhere " - 6:19
13. " Lime Tree " - 5:53

The songs Four Winds (as EP ) and Hot Knives / If The Brakeman Turns My Way (both on a single) were released from the album.

Participating musicians

Since Bright Eyes is mainly Conor Oberst's project , the line-up of fellow musicians often changes from album to album. However, Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott have become full members of the band since around 2005.

• Conor Oberst - vocals, guitar, piano, synthesizer
• Mike Mogis - guitar, bass, pedal steel, vocals, lap steel, mandolin, dobro, percussion, vibraphone, 12-string guitar, baritone, ukulele, glockenspiel
• Nate Walcott - organ, piano, string arrangement, electric piano, orchestral arrangement, woodwind arrangement

other musicians involved

M. Ward Janet Weiss Clark Baechle Stacy DuPree Sherri DuPree Z mountain Rachael Yamagata Hassan Lemtouni Suzie Katayama Bill Meyers Dan McCarthy

Jason Boesel Anton Patzner Maria Taylor Andy LeMaster David Rawlings Tim Luntzel Gillian Welch Ted Stevens Sean Foley John McEntire Michael Zerang

Jonathan Crawford Dan Bitney Dan Fliegel David Moyer Brian Walsh Shane Aspegren Sarah Wass Myka Miller Stefanie Drootin Jake Bellows

Web links

• Cassadaga at Discogs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bright Eyes in the German charts on OfficialCharts.de
2. ↑ Bright Eyes in the Austrian charts on AustrianCharts.at
3. ↑ Bright Eyes in the Swiss charts on hitparade.ch
4. ↑ Bright Eyes in the Official UK Charts (English)
5. ↑ Bright Eyes on the US Billboard 200 album charts
6. ^ Entry for the album Cassadaga on the Saddle Creek website
7. ↑ laut.de review
8. ↑ Rolling Stone Review
9. ↑ Cassadaga ranked 12th on 2007 albums
10. ^ Pitchfork review
11. ↑ Allmusic review
12. ↑ Visions issue 169, page 103