While Bright Eyes fans anxiously await the follow-up to 2005’s I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, Conor Oberst and co. is sating their hunger with a set of singles, unreleased tracks, collaborations and covers recorded between 1998 and 2005. Noise Floor, which hits shelves Oct. 24, features tracks pulled from four-track cassette, MiniDisc, reel-to-reel tape, and computer, as well as a guest appearance from Janet Weiss of Sleater-Kinney.
Here is the track listing for Noise Floor:
1. “Mirrors and Fevers” (Don’t Be Frightened of Turning The Page EP – 2000)
2. “I Will Be Grateful for this Day” (Sub Pop Singles Club 2001)
3. “Trees Get Wheeled Away” (Lost & Found, Volume 1 2003)
4. “Drunk Kid Catholic” (3 Hit Songs From Bright Eyes UK single 2003)
5. “Spent on Rainy Days” (Home series on Post Parlo Records 2002)
6. “The Vanishing Act” (Too Much Of A Good Thing 7″ 1999)
7. “Soon You Will Be Leaving Your Man” (Motion Sickness 7″ 2000)
8. “Blue Angels Air Show” (DIW cover mount 7″ 2002)
9. “Weather Reports” (Unreleased 7″ with M.Ward)
10. “Seashell Tale” (Unreleased 7″ with M.Ward)
11. “Bad Blood” (Album Leaf 7″ split 2001)
12. “Amy in the White Coat” (vinyl only b-side No Beginning To The Story EP 2002)
13. “Devil Town” (The Late Great Daniel Johnston 2004)
14. “I’ve Been Eating (for You)” (3 New Hit Songs From Bright Eyes UK single 2001)
15. “Happy Birthday to Me” (Feb. 15) (3 New Hit Songs From Bright Eyes UK single 2001)
16. “Motion Sickness” (7″ 2000)
Additional tracks available on vinyl only:
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17. “Act of Contrition” (Second Thoughts compilation 2000)
18. “Hungry for a Holiday” (Album Leaf 7″ 2001)
19. “When the Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass Again” (Sub Pop singles club – 2001)
20. “Entry Way Song” (Amos House Vol 2 2002)
21. “It’s Cool, We Can Still Be Friends” (Transmission One: Tea At The Palaz of Hoon 2000)
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