Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst takes a walk with the mystics on the band's latest album. He sees ''crooked crosses falling from the sky,'' invokes Haile Selassie, and has a guest ''shaman'' wax cosmic about the future of the universe. ''I've seen stranger things, man,'' Oberst insists. Really? Fortunately, the music stays grounded, with Oberst trading his recent country-folk fixation for pop choruses and electro beats that New Order might dig. BDownload These:
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