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Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning/Digital Ash In A Digital Urn

Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, January 2005

SOMETIMES YOU can be too darn talented for your own good. Regularly described as a "boy genius", 24 year old Conor Oberst – doe-eyed self-obsessive, thrift-store beautiful, once rumoured to be the consort of Winona Ryder, probably because the concept was too perfectly narcissistic for the tattle-mongers to resist – has had a chequered career to date.

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