Conor OberstBest Conor Oberst Albums Ranked

Ruminations

fantano

8.0

“Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst benefits from going back to basics here on his latest solo album.”

Ruminations

nme

8.0

““Catheter piss, fed through a tube,” Conor Oberst warbles on ‘Counting Sheep’ as if singing his own hospital charts, “blood pressure’s fine, 121 over 75…”. Oberst has mastered garage punk with Desaparecidos, formed folk supergroups and covered country, psych, electronica and more with his most celebrated band Bright Eyes. For some, however, the 36-year-old is at his most radiant alone at a piano ”

Upside Down Mountain

rollingstone

8.0

“"I'm blessed with a heart that doesn't stop," Conor Oberst declares in a still-boyish voice in the aptly titled "Zigzagging Toward the Light." At 34, the former indie-rock prodigy still writes and sings about the high times and bad choices of adolescence, on the way to matured love and responsibility, like the sharpest kid in the room: a florid Midwest Morrissey with Jeff Tweedy's twisted-pop savv”

Ruminations

pitchfork

7.5

“Ruminations is a record like none other in Conor Oberst’s catalog, stunning for how utterly alone he sounds.”

Conor Oberst

pitchfork

7.3

“On his self-titled Merge debut, the Bright Eyes star is focused on making escapes-- moving on, moving over, breaking out, hitting the streets, leaving it all behind, don't look back.”

Salutations

loudandquiet

7.0

“Conor Oberst has released so many records under so many guises over the past two and a half decades that it’s something of a surprise to realise that he’s still only 37 years old. This latest album is a hybrid of full-band versions of his last acoustic record ‘Ruminations’, plus a handful of brand new songs. There are no real surprises here; Oberst’s ever distinctive voice, a quivering tremor nev”