{"id":805620,"date":"2020-03-24T10:30:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T16:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=971965"},"modified":"2020-03-24T10:30:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T16:30:57","slug":"bright-eyes-drop-first-new-music-in-nearly-a-decade-with-bagpipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/bright-eyes-drop-first-new-music-in-nearly-a-decade-with-bagpipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright Eyes Drop First New Music in Nearly a Decade \u2014 With Bagpipes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bright Eyes<\/a> have released a new song titled \u201cPersona Non Grata.\u201d The single marks their first new music in nine years, following 2011\u2019s The People\u2019s Key.<\/em> The band also confirmed they will release a new album this year via their newly signed label, Dead Oceans.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting dressed for a date\/put on blue aftershave,\u201d Conor Oberst<\/a> sings in the track\u2019s opening lines, led by sparse piano. \u201cWore a kilt like a kelt\/hid the weight that I felt.\u201d A minute into the song, searing bagpipes enter.<\/p>\n

Bright Eyes previously announced a massive 2020 world tour<\/a>, but in a letter accompanied by the single, they admitted the trek is up in the air due to the coronavirus pandemic. \"Bright<\/p>\n

\u201cStrange days indeed,\u201d they wrote. \u201cWe, like so many others, had many plans for 2020. We will be releasing a new album this year no matter what. We also have lots of touring plans that we are now reassessing. We will keep you informed as things progress. We very much want to get on the road and hope to see you all in person sooner rather than later.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil then, here is a song called \u2018Persona Non Grata,’\u201d they continued. \u201cWe hope you like it. It was hard to decide which song to share first because they are all quite different, but this one seemed as good of a place as any to start. And it has bagpipes! Which is a first for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bright Eyes have released a new song titled \u201cPersona Non Grata.\u201d The single marks their first new music in nine years, following 2011\u2019s The People\u2019s Key. The band also confirmed they will release a new album this year via their newly signed label, Dead Oceans. \u201cGetting dressed for a date\/put on blue aftershave,\u201d Conor Oberst […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 13:25:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}