Fevers and Mirrors

Fevers and Mirrors
Studio album by Bright Eyes
Publication (s)	May 2000
Label (s)	Saddle Creek
Format (s)	CD , LP
Genre (s)	Folk , indie rock , alternative country
Title (number)	12
running time	approx. 55 minutes
occupation	Conor Colonel Mike Mogis other studio musicians: see below
production	Mike Mogis
Studio (s)	Presto! Recording Studios - Lincoln , Nebraska
chronology Every Day and Every Night (1999) Fevers and Mirrors Don't Be Frightened Of Turning The Page (2001)

Fevers and Mirrors is the third album by Bright Eyes . It was introduced to Presto! At the end of 1999 . Recording Studios in Lincoln , Nebraska and released through Saddle Creek in May 2000 .

Track list

1. "A Spindle, a Darkness, a Fever, and a Necklace" - 6:28
2. "A Scale, a Mirror and Those Indifferent Clocks" - 2:44
3. "The Calendar Hung Itself ..." - 3:55
4. "Something Vague" - 3:33
5. "The Movement of a Hand" - 4:02
6. "Arienette" - 3:45
7. "When the Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass" - 2:40
8. "Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh" - 4:43
9. "The Center of the World" - 4:43
10. "Sunrise, Sunset" - 4:32
11. "An Attempt to Tip the Scales" - 8:29
12. "A Song to Pass the Time" - 5:30

After the penultimate song An Attempt to Tip the Scales, there is a fake radio interview with singer Conor Oberst . In reality, Todd Baechle (of The Faint ) is imitating the voice of Colonel. The interviewer is Matt Silcock . However, based on the content of the interview, the listener can already guess that the interview is probably fake.

reception

Like its predecessors, the album did not make it into the US album charts, but received mostly positive reviews when it was released. For example, forgave Allmusic 4.5 of 5 points and compared the style of the album with bands like Radiohead , Blur and Suede . At the same time it was noted that the album sounds " lo-fi " . The album received a 7/10 on the New Musical Express .

Pitchfork Media , on the other hand, gave a rather average rating for the album release with a grade of 5.2 out of 10 possible points. Nevertheless, the album later made it to number 170 of the best albums of the 2000s on Pitchfork and the song The Calendar Hung Itself ... to number 252 of the best songs of the 2000s.

Participating musicians

• Conor Oberst - guitar, piano, rhodes, organ, vocals a. a.
• Mike Mogis - vibraphone, glockenspiel, mandolin, piano, percussion a. a.
• Tim Kasher - accordion
• Jiha Lee - flute, vocals
• Andy LeMaster - vocals, bass, guitar, percussion, mellotron
• AJ Mogis - piano
• Clint Schnase - drums
• Todd Baechle - keyboard
• Joe Knapp - drums, percussion, vocals
• Matt Maginn - bass

Web links

• Fevers and Mirrors at Discogs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The fake character of the interview can e.g. For example, you can guess that Todd Fink (in the role of Conor Oberst) asks the radio presenter how long he has been working for the station. To this he replies "just a few minutes" ( "only for a few minutes" ). For further information cf. also this website.
2. ↑ Fevers and Mirrors Entry on the Billboard website
3. ↑ Allmusic review
4. ↑ NME review ( Memento of February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Pitchfork review ( Memento from December 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
6. ^ Pitchfork - The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s
7. ↑ Pitchfork - The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s ( Memento from August 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )