The Studio Albums 2000–2011

Tracklist

• CD 1: Fevers and Mirrors
• 1
  A Spindle, a Darkness, a Fever, and a Necklace
  6:28
  4.0 ★
• 2
  A Scale, a Mirror and Those Indifferent Clocks
  2:44
  5.0 ★
• 3
  The Calendar Hung Itself…
  3:55
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Something Vague
  3:33
  4.0 ★
• 5
  The Movement of a Hand
  4:02
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Arienette
  3:45
  4.5 ★
• 7
  When the Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass
  2:40
  5.0 ★
• 8
  Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh
  4:43
  5.0 ★
• 9
  The Center of the World
  4:43
  5.0 ★
• 10
  Sunrise, Sunset.
  4:32
  5.0 ★
• 11
  An Attempt to Tip the Scales
  8:29
  5.0 ★
• 12
  A Song to Pass the Time
  5:30
  3.5 ★
• CD 2: LIFTED or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
• 1
  The Big Picture
  8:42
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Method Acting
  3:42
  5.0 ★
• 3
  False Advertising
  5:52
  5.0 ★
• 4
  You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.
  3:25
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Lover I Don’t Have to Love
  4:00
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Bowl of Oranges
  4:48
  4.5 ★
• 7
  Don’t Know When but a Day Is Gonna Come
  6:31
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Nothing Gets Crossed Out
  4:34
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Make War
  6:16
  5.0 ★
• 10
  Waste of Paint
  6:29
  5.0 ★
• 11
  From a Balance Beam
  3:40
  5.0 ★
• 12
  Laura Laurent
  4:56
  5.0 ★
• 13
  Let’s Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and to Be Loved)
  10:07
  4.5 ★
• CD 3: I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
• 1
  At the Bottom of Everything
  4:34
  4.5 ★
• 2
  We Are Nowhere and It’s Now
  4:12
  4.6 ★
• 3
  Old Soul Song (For the New World Order)
  4:29
  4.5 ★
• 4
  Lua
  4:31
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Train Under Water
  6:05
  4.0 ★
• 6
  First Day of My Life
  3:08
  5.0 ★
• 7
  Another Travelin’ Song
  4:16
  5.0 ★
• 8
  Land Locked Blues
  5:47
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Poison Oak
  4:39
  4.5 ★
• 10
  Road to Joy
  3:54
  5.0 ★
• CD 4: Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
• 1
  Time Code
  4:28
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Gold Mine Gutted
  3:56
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Arc of Time (Time Code)
  3:54
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Down in a Rabbit Hole
  4:33
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Take It Easy (Love Nothing)
  3:20
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Hit the Switch
  4:47
  4.0 ★
• 7
  I Believe in Symmetry
  5:24
  5.0 ★
• 8
  Devil in the Details
  4:06
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Ship in a Bottle
  3:27
  3.5 ★
• 10
  Light Pollution
  3:16
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Theme From Piñata
  3:18
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Easy/Lucky/Free
  5:31
  5.0 ★
• CD 5: Cassadaga
• 1
  Clairaudients (Kill or Be Killed)
  6:05
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Four Winds
  4:16
  5.0 ★
• 3
  If the Brakeman Turns My Way
  4:53
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Hot Knifes
  4:13
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Make a Plan to Love Me
  4:14
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Soul Singer in a Session Band
  4:14
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Classic Cars
  4:19
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Middleman
  4:49
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Cleanse Song
  3:28
  2.5 ★
• 10
  No One Would Riot for Less
  5:12
  5.0 ★
• 11
  Coat Check Dream Song
  4:10
  3.0 ★
• 12
  I Must Belong Somewhere
  6:19
  2.5 ★
• 13
  Lime Tree
  5:53
  3.0 ★
• CD 6: The People’s Key
• 1
  Firewall
  7:16
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Shell Games
  3:55
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Jejune Stars
  4:10
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Approximate Sunlight
  4:24
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Haile Selassie
  4:33
  4.0 ★
• 6
  A Machine Spiritual (In the People’s Key)
  4:19
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Triple Spiral
  3:51
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Beginner’s Mind
  3:55
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Ladder Song
  3:58
  4.0 ★
• 10
  One for You, One for Me
  6:37
  4.0 ★

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Release credits

• A. J. Mogis
  Rhodes piano [9], choir vocals [2], piano [2]
• Andy LeMaster
  additional [6], background vocals [4.2, 4.9, 4.12, 6.1-4, 6.6, 6.8, 5.2], bass guitar [4.6-9, 4.12, 1.2, 1.5, 1.10, 6.10], choir vocals [2, 9], electric guitar [1.10, 2.2-4, 2.6-8, 2.11], guitar [4.6-9, 4.12, 6.4, 6.10, 1.3], keyboard [1.11, 2.2-4, 2.6-8, 2.11, 4.6-7], mellotron [5-6], percussion [3, 6, 11], vocal [2.2-4, 2.6-8, 2.11, 1.9-11]
• Anton Patzner
  violin [2, 6]
• Bill Meyers
  conductor [4, 10, 13]
• Blake Sennett
  vocal [1]
• Brian Walsh
  bass clarinet [8], clarinet [9]
• Bright Eyes
  producer [3.1-10, 4.1-12]
• Carla Azar
  drums (drum set) [2, 6, 8], percussion [2, 6, 8]
• Casey Scott
  bass guitar [3, 8-9, 12-13]
• Chris Brooks
  piano [11]
• Chris Macdonald
  background vocals [5, 8]
• Clark Baechle
  choir vocals [2], clarinet [3, 6, 8], drums (drum set) [6.1, 6.3-5, 6.7, 4.2, 4.9, 3.3, 3.7, 3.10], guest [3, 7, 10], percussion [1]
• Clay Leverett
  background vocals [12], drums (drum set) [6-7, 12], vocal [9]
• Clint Schnase
  drums (drum set) [2, 5]
• Conor Oberst
  Rhodes piano [1.5, 2.1-13], Wurlitzer electric piano [2, 4-5], baritone guitar [3, 5], bass guitar [4], guitar [1.1, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8-11, 2.1-13, 5.1-2, 5.4-10, 5.12-13, 3.4, 4.4-7, 4.9-11], keyboard [4.2, 4.4, 4.10, 4.12, 5.13, 1.5, 1.12], lead vocals [1-13], organ [1.2, 2.1-13], percussion [11], piano [1.6-7, 1.12, 4.8, 2.1-13, 5.3], sampler [1.1, 4.1, 4.11], vocal [1.1-12, 2.1-13, 4.1-12]
• Dan Bitney
  percussion [8-9]
• Dan Fliegel
  percussion [8-9]
• Dan McCarthy
  bass guitar [2]
• David Moyer
  bass clarinet [8]
• David Rawlings
  guitar [5, 7, 12]
• Donna Carnes
  violin [4, 7]
• Emmylou Harris
  background vocals [8], guest [2, 7-8]
• Gillian Welch
  background vocals [7]
• Gretta Cohn
  cello [3, 5-6, 12]
• Hassan Lemtouni
  background vocals [1, 11]
• Jake Bellows
  background vocals [12]
• Janet Weiss
  drums (drum set) [1, 4, 6]
• Jason Boesel
  background vocals [3, 8], drums (drum set) [4.2, 4.4-7, 4.9-12, 5.2-3, 5.7, 5.10-12, 3.2-3, 3.5, 3.7, 3.9], guest [2-3, 5, 7, 9], percussion [2, 4-7, 9-12]
• Jason Flatowicz
  trombone [3, 13]
• Jeff Tafolla
  choir vocals [9]
• Jenny Lewis
  vocal [1]
• Jesse Harris
  guest [1-2, 5-8], guitar [1-2, 5-8]
• Jiha Lee
  choir vocals [2], flute [4.6, 4.11, 2.3, 2.6, 2.8, 2.11, 1.2, 1.4, 1.10], vocal [2.3, 2.6, 2.8, 2.11, 1.5]
• Jim James
  guest [1]
• Jimmy Tamborello
  drums (drum set) [5], programming [5]
• Joe Knapp
  drums (drum set) [3-4, 6, 8-10], percussion [3], vocal [8]
• John McEntire
  electronic instruments [11], percussion [8-9, 11]
• Jonathan Crawford
  percussion [8-9, 11]
• Julee Dunekacke
  French horn [3]
• Karen Becker
  cello [4, 7]
• Katie Muth
  oboe [3, 6, 8, 12]
• Kim Salistean
  violin [4, 7]
• Laura Burhenn
  background vocals [4, 7-8]
• M. Ward
  background vocals [6], guitar [1, 4, 6]
• Margret Fish
  bassoon [3, 13]
• Maria Taylor
  background vocals [4.4, 4.11-12, 5.2], choir vocals [2], drums (drum set) [5], organ [2-4, 8, 12-13], piano [2-4, 8, 12-13], vocal [2-4, 8, 12-13]
• Matt Focht
  drums (drum set) [2-4, 11-13]
• Matt Maginn
  bass guitar [1.3-4, 1.6, 1.8-9, 6.1-8, 2.2, 2.4-7, 2.11], electric bass guitar [2, 5, 9-10], guest [2, 5, 9-10]
• Michael Zerang
  percussion [8-9]
• Mike Mogis
  12 string guitar [2], Appalachian dulcimer [4], Wurlitzer electric piano [1, 3, 10], acoustic guitar [9], background vocals [3, 9, 11], banjo [5.2, 2.2-9, 2.11-13], baritone guitar [4.2, 4.9, 5.8], bass guitar [1, 3-6, 9], bell [2-9, 11-13], chimes [11], choir vocals [9], ebow [2], electric guitar [1.4, 1.9, 2.2-9, 2.11-13], electronic instruments [2, 6, 9], glockenspiel [1.1, 2.2-9, 2.11-13, 5.1], guest [1-3, 5, 7, 9], guitar [5.2, 5.4-5, 5.7, 5.9, 5.11, 4.2-4, 4.6-7, 4.10-12], güiro [3], hammered dulcimer [2.2-9, 2.11-13, 1.5], keyboard [10], lap steel guitar [6, 8-9], mandolin [2.2-9, 2.11-13, 3.1-2, 5.2, 5.12, 1.10], mix [4.1-12, 3.1-10], organ [9], pedal steel guitar [1.6, 1.8, 5.1, 5.3, 5.10-11, 2.2-9, 2.11-13], percussion [5.8-9, 1.11], piano [1], recording [4.1-12, 3.4, 3.6-7], resonator guitar [5.4, 5.12, 2.2-9, 2.11-13], sampler [11], steel guitar [3, 5, 7, 9], steelpan [3], tambourine [6, 8], theremin [2], timpani [6], ukulele [9], vibraphone [2.2-9, 2.11-13, 1.1, 1.8, 5.1, 5.11]
• Myka Miller
  oboe [9]
• Nate Walcott
  electric piano [2, 11], guest [2-3, 8, 10], orchestrator [1, 5], organ [1-3, 6-7, 10, 12], piano [4, 6-7], strings [5.4, 5.10, 5.13, 4.4, 4.7], trumpet [3.2-3, 3.8, 3.10, 4.9], woodwind [8-9]
• Nick White
  Rhodes piano [5], guest [2-3, 5, 7-10], keyboard [7, 9], organ [3, 7, 9-10], piano [2, 8], vibraphone [8]
• Nick Zinner
  guitar [4, 6-8, 12], keyboard [4-5]
• Orenda Fink
  choir vocals [2], trumpet [2-3, 7, 11, 13], vocal [2-3, 7, 11, 13]
• Rachael Yamagata
  background vocals [1, 4-5, 10-11, 13]
• Robb Bass
  choir vocals [9]
• Sabrina Duim
  harp [6, 8, 11]
• Sarah Wass
  flute [9]
• Sean Cole
  harmonica [9, 13]
• Sean Foley
  background vocals [8]
• Shane Agsperen
  additional [2-3], drums (drum set) [3, 10], percussion [2]
• Shane Aspegren
  drums (drum set) [11], percussion [9]
• Sherri DuPree
  background vocals [4-5, 10-11, 13]
• Stacy DuPree
  background vocals [4-5, 10-11, 13]
• Stefanie Drootin
  bass guitar [11-12]
• Stella Mogis
  background vocals [1, 9]
• Suzie Katayama
  conductor [1, 5]
• Ted Stevens
  background vocals [8], electric guitar [9]
• Thomas Kluge
  viola [4, 7]
• Tiffany Kowalski
  violin [3, 5-6, 12]
• Tim Kasher
  accordion [1, 4, 6]
• Tim Luntzel
  bass guitar [7, 10], electric bass guitar [1, 3, 6-8], guest [1, 3, 6-8]
• Todd Fink
  choir vocals [2], keyboard [3], vocal [11]
• Z Berg
  background vocals [1, 4-5, 10-11, 13]
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Issues

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  The Studio Albums 2000–2011

  6x CD
  21 October 2016