After a few rounds, I am somewhat perplexed by this board to undoubtedly Conor Oberst is musically gifted and able to write a good song from the state. But something sadly lacking me anything interferes with most songs on this album. And it's not the good production and impeccable singing which was also the last Bright Eyes album already as well and that has me very much excited. It's probably the one hand, the fact that his usual collaborators are only sporadically here and I will not shake the feeling that Conor Oberst is the music workers. Although such a good such as Ryan Adams or Nick Cave but which are flat but someone who gets up in the morning and work on his music goes because he has just nothing better to do. So the catchy "Moab" is ultimately an example mix of "Brakeman" and "Classic Cars" from the last album BE. And the line "There is nothing That the Road can not heal" is indeed a bit too cheesy to bring the meatball in the neck. Then there is a rockabilly number "I do not want to die (in a hospital)" and a pub screamer "NYC-Gone, Gone" which is reminiscent of the wonderful "Port O'Brien" colorful arranged but without the sharp blade which else has scratched with so many BE-song in the heart. And it remains for me so far but only a well-crafted disk it but fails to really grab with one exception - "Milk Thistle" a very wonderful sparingly instrumented song may indeed describes the whole dilemma of this plate.
