Conor Oberst and the other members of Bright Eyes have done a ton of Zoom interviews -- including one with Stereogum -- to promote Down In The Weeds Where The World Once Was, the first new Bright Eyes album in nearly a decade. So what's one more? Bright Eyes have already done quarantine-era musical-guest duty on shows like Colbert and CBS This Morning. Last night, the band did the musical-guest thing on James Corden's Late Late Show, and Oberst also had a Zoom chat with Corden.
In the interview, Oberst talked a bit about seeing other artists cover his work, and he also mentioned how his real first album was a cassette that he put out when he was 13. But the real trip of the interview is just seeing Oberst, once a vaguely mysterious figure, projected as a giant human-sized face on a late-night host's wall.
On the same show, we also got video of Bright Eyes performing "Pan & Broom, the song from the new album where Oberst sings over a drum-machine beat that sounds a whole lot like the one on Drake's "Hotline Bling." The performance must've been recorded live in studio a while ago, and it features Lucius singers Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig on backing vocals. Watch the interview and the performance below.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QbZWXkswfV8
Down In The Weeds Where The World Once Was is out now on Dead Oceans.
