- rock, indie rock, country rock
- 73 min
- 13 tracks
- Wichita
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground is the fourth studio album by Bright Eyes and the 46th release of Saddle Creek Records. The band made its national television debut in support of the album, performing "The Trees Get Wheeled Away" on the Late Show with David Letterman.
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Character
Character-led, spare, grave and contemporary.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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What critics gave it
Metacritic 77/100
- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- Blender4/5 ★
- The Guardian4/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times4/4 ★
- NME7/10
- Pitchfork7.7/10
- Q4/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide4.5/5 ★
- Spin8/10
- The Village VoiceB+
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Tracks
- 1The Big Picture8:42
- 2Method Acting3:42
- 3False Advertising5:52
- 4You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.3:25
- 5Lover I Don’t Have to Love4:00
- 6Bowl of Oranges4:49
- 7Don’t Know When but a Day Is Gonna Come6:32
- 8Nothing Gets Crossed Out4:35
- 9Make War6:17
- 10Waste of Paint6:30
- 11From a Balance Beam3:40
- 12Laura Laurent4:57
- 13Let’s Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and to Be Loved)10:08
13 tracks, 73 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Bright Eyes
- Label
- Wichita
- Released
- August 12, 2002
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- GB
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