Bright Eyes – I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (A Companion) (Vinyl) Fu Manchu Graham Simpson - bass guitar

Graham Simpson - bass guitar (except on Virginia Plain)

Private Idaho

As always the key to The Bats is the emotion that their (seemingly) simple songs carry

The output is a lo-fi No Wave groove all its own - rooted in a deep love of champeta

Bright Eyes – I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (A Companion) (Vinyl) Fu Manchu Graham Simpson - bass guitarThe reworked I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning tracks, originally so clean and elegant, are, on the Companion EP, full of "harmonica and mandolins folky vibes," Oberst says. While the analogue sweetness of the Wide Awake songs have been put through a detached nihilism filter. Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, EP, Limited Edition, Gold Tracklisting: A1 Old Soul Song (For The New World Order) A2 First Day Of My Life A3 Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel B1 We Are Nowhere And