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Bright Eyes: Koko, London

Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 22 March 2007

IT IS A TRIBUTE to Conor Oberst's force of personality that the name Bright Eyes is now associated with him rather than with the rabbit-eulogising Art Garfunkel hit. Once indie audiences started taking notice of him via his 2002 album Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Oberst's whimsical magnetism did the rest.

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