Returning in the midst of a global pandemic, the alt-folker talks chemistry and working with Phoebe Bridgers – and insists the band never broke up This week was supposed to mark the live return of Bright Eyes.
After dropping their first new song in nine years with the gorgeously melancholic ‘Persona Non Grata’, they were due to make their live return in Japan.
Alas, fate and the coronavirus pandemic putting the world on lockdown has forced them to change their plans. “It’s so crazy, but our problems are nothing compared to people with kids who can’t go to work, can’t eat or get medicine,” frontman Conor Oberst tells NME from self-isolation at home in LA. “You gotta keep things in perspective.
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