Cassadaga

Enhanced Japanese pressing of the 2007 long-player from Conor Oberst & Co. Featuring three bonus tracks, 'Tourist Trap', 'Endless Entertainment', and 'Four Winds' (Enhanced Video). a swirling, euphonious record, at times bursting with bombastic confidence and country swagger, and at others loose-limbed and mesmeric. If "I'm Wide Awake..." was the "New York City album", then "Cassadaga" is "the America album", in which Conor Oberst chronicles his travels around the country and articulates his sense of history in the landscape. Oberst's impassioned prose is still recognizable in every track, but the songs are rich with elaborate production, cinema-sized orchestration, and at times, sprawling, almost psychedelic atmospherics. Universal.