Bright Eyes Cassadaga

4 stars out of 5 -- "[With] remarkable love songs....[Oberst] shows he can still tell us something by communing with himself."
Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Top Albums of the Year 2007" -- "Oberst's loose, memorable tunes and lyrics about crises both personal and global are consistently engaging..."
4 stars out of 5 -- "Oberst's countryish genre studies have deepened with a very adult loneliness."
"Musically, it's his richest album yet, full of Nashville twang and Branson brassiness. And lyrically, the itinerant-traveler conceit is intriguing..." -- Grade: B
4 stars out of 5 -- "The strapping, clear-headed coherence of 'Four Winds' is echoed throughout the album....At long last his star is born."
4 stars out of 5 -- "[With] ambitious string arrangements and swinging instrumentation that echo great '70s works by Joe Cocker and Elton John."
"[H]e offers some of the most polished country-folk of his 14-year career. His lyrical acuity is in tact..."
"With sweeping string sections almost reminiscent of Smashing Pumpkins, psychedelic pop structures, political protest poetics and dusty country production....[His] most opulent work yet."
Ranked #23 in Q's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2007" -- "Conor Oberst has made his most assured album to date..."
4 stars out of 5 -- "CASSADAGA is an album to warm souls, rally minds and break hearts in equal measure."