I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning is a masterpiece of country-flavored heartland angst, plowing the musical ground between The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and the Cure’s Seventeen Seconds.

I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning One of two Bright Eyes albums to hit stores Jan. 25, "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" is the more gripping of the two (the other being "Digital Ash in a Digital Urn").