The Get Up Kids "Guilt Show" Color:Coke Bottle with Red Splatter Where the World Once Was

Where the World Once Was is the 10th studio album by Bright Eyes

and Scott Owen on double bass and backing vocals

" If the band summon the energy they've demonstrated at DIY festivals and shows up and down the West Coast

This 20th Anniversary Edition of the album includes four previously unreleased demos

to musical guests Cyndi Lauper and Carly Simon

The Get Up Kids "Guilt Show" Color:Coke Bottle with Red Splatter Where the World Once WasBack in the day (four years ago), the Get Up Kids were about giddy anthems and Superchunk posters in practice rooms. Still, a strong emphasis on songwriting did suggest there was more than just more and louder power chords on the band's horizon, and their strings officially came in with 2002's On a Wire. The album scuttled punk fervor and plaintive vocal cries in favor of subtle pop vessels loaded with ambitious writing. A little too ambitious Wire at