Bright Eyes’ new EP “Kids Table” out now

Bright Eyes’ new EP “Kids Table” is out now via Dead Oceans.

Listen to it here.
Order it on vinyl here.
Watch the “Dyslexic Palindrome” visualizer here.

Says Conor, “The Kids Table EP is a bit of Bright Eyes reverse-engineering. During the simpler times when we were putting out records on our own label, Saddle Creek, we’d release EPs as precursors to albums. They’d usually feature one song from the upcoming record, with up to five additional B-sides that didn’t make the album (like with There Is No Beginning to the Story EP before Lifted & the Four Winds EP before Cassadaga).

Kids Table is essentially the same concept, but a year after Five Dice, All Threes came out, instead of beforehand like we used to do. The song ‘Kids Table’ was actually one of our ideas for a single for Five Dice, All Threes, but we were never very good at picking our own singles… so in the end we left it off the record knowing that we’d be making this EP and it would eventually get its day in the sun. The rest of the songs are pieces that we all loved, but didn’t fit into the puzzle of Five Dice. So come eat off an ironing board with us. Every day is a holiday.”

Bright Eyes is:
Conor Oberst
Mike Mogis
Nathaniel Walcott

With:
Jason Boesel (drums: tracks 2, 3, 8; percussion: tracks 3, 8)
Vikram Devasthali (trombone: track 3)
Michaela Favara (vocal: track 3)
Griffin Goldsmith (drums: tracks 1, 6, 8; percussion: tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 8; vocal: track 1)
Josh Johnson (alto saxophone: track 3)
Jamie Montes (vocal: track 3)
Alex Orange Drink (vocal: tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 8)
Alynda Segarra of Hurray for the Riff Raff (vocal: track 1, 6)
Leslie Stevens (vocals: track 4)
Macey Taylor (bass: tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 8)

Produced by Bright Eyes
Recorded by Mike Mogis at ARC Studios, Omaha, Nebraska
Mixed by Mike Mogis
Engineered and Additional Recording and Production by Adam Roberts
Additional Engineer: Pierre de Reeder at 64 Sound, Los Angeles, CA (horns, track 3)
Additional Engineering: Nathaniel Walcott (tracks 4, 5)
Mastered by Brian Lee and Bob Jackson at Waygate Mastering, Cape Elizabeth, Maine