Cassadaga: CD Don Was and the demos cut for

and the demos cut for Blue Note

the band were driven by fervently progressive and proudly melodic instincts

Andrea Riseborough and Stephen Graham

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Cassadaga: CD Don Was and the demos cut forOne of the things that struck Oberst as he and the band went through twenty plus years of music is that he may in fact have been writing the same song this whole time. Not sonically, of course, but conceptually. This last wave contains, in Noise Floor, early Bright Eyes songs so raw Oberst never even released them back in the day, as well as, in Cassadaga and The Peoples Key, the bands most polished and sophisticated albums. When Bright Eyes toured