Bright Eyes have offered a second preview of their forthcoming tenth album Five Dice, All Threes with the release of the punky Rainbow Overpass, featuring Alex Orange Drink of Brooklyn punks The So So Glos, who helped write frontman Conor Oberst write the album.
“Alex and I wrote a lot of the songs together, but Rainbow Overpass is the only one he gets a verse,” says Oberst. “He’s kinda like my hype man, getting a little Beastie Boys on the shit. They [The So So Glos] grew up on punk rock and the Beasties, so there are a lot of little bursts of other voices. I like that. It creates energy. Sometimes music can feel flat until you get into a live situation, when there’s adrenaline and raw energy. Instead of working in reverse, where that happens as we tour, I was trying to get some of that energy onto the record.”
Listen to Rainbow Overpass below:
