Bright Eyes "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning"

The album "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" is the sixth studio album by Bright Eyes, an American band, which was released on January 25, 2005, along with their seventh album, "Digital Ash in a Digital Urn". The album will be reissued by Dead Oceans with a companion EP on November 11, 2022.

The album features Nate Walcott as a permanent member of the band and includes the song "Road to Joy" which interpolates Beethoven's "Ode to Joy". The album achieved success on the US charts with the singles "Lua" and "Take It Easy (Love Nothing)", which topped the Billboard Hot Singles Sales chart in 2004. The band went on a world tour to promote both albums, and the tour was captured on the album "Motion Sickness".

"I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" opens with a spoken recording by Conor Oberst about two strangers on an airplane that is about to crash into the ocean. The opening song, "At the Bottom of Everything" is a four-chord folk song with sarcastic social commentaries on American ideals. The album received widespread acclaim from music critics, and by 2014, it had sold 522,000 copies in the US and was awarded a gold certification from the Independent Music Companies Association for sales of at least 100,000 copies throughout Europe.