Bright Eyes

I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning

I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning is a tightly arranged, guest-heavy folk record defined by its acoustic textures and deliberate, track-specific instrumentation. Its title anchors it to one lyric and one song — 'Road to Joy' — making that track the album’s philosophical and emotional centre. It avoids rock orthodoxy, digital processing, and sonic filler. Its strength is in restraint: pedal steel that answers rather than leads, trumpet that punctuates rather than proclaims, harmonies that deepen rather than decorate. It is not an album of arrival — it is an album of sustained attention.