The album is filled with wonderful chemistry between Phoebe Bridger's acoustic saccharine and Conor Oberst's more austere, folk vocals. The long answer is that Better Oblivion Community Center is a slow burn, but throughout the track list, a meaningful relationship is formed between the beautiful vocals of Phoebe Bridges and the endearing sad quality of Bright Eyes' lead singer.

Shouldn't it be awkward to pair them up? Especially if it's not a duet, wouldn't Phoebe Bridgers overshadow Conor Oberst, or the latter disrupt the former? But to be vocalists in the same song, the same album, is another matter altogether. Her songs are heartfelt & piercing, such as in songs like Killer or her work with other wonderful contemporary indie singer-songwriters, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, in the supergroup boygenius (listen to their EP it's great), so as composers they would make an amazing match. Phoebe Bridgers is a conventionally good singer, at least in comparison to Conor Oberst. So when I heard the last-minute surprise news that he was starting a band with Phoebe Bridgers - one of the iconic figures of slow indie rock with somber sensibilities to date - and calling it Better Oblivion Community Center, I was a bit wary.

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