Picks and Pans Review: Further Listening Bright Eyes

By CHUCK ARNOLD, JOE NICK PATOSKI, RALPH NOVAK, STEVE DOUGHERTY

UPDATED 09/04/2006 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 09/04/2006 at 01:00 AM EDT

If you like M. Ward's Post-War, check out last year's even better alt-folk disc from Bright Eyes, I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (left). The two acts have shared the same stage: Ward toured with Bright Eyes on 2005's Monsters of Folk caravan and even did a stint as guitarist for the Conor Oberst-led band on 2004's Vote for Change trek.