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Conor Oberst: Upside Down Mountain

Bud Scoppa, Uncut, July 2014

A DECADE AND A half has passed since Conor Oberst popped into view as an 18-year-old lo-fi Heartland prodigy with a barely contained torrent of words pouring out of him, and it's tempting to look at the 11 proper albums he's made with his ever-changing band Bright Eyes and under his own name as an extended coming-of-age narrative.

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