“A visceral thrill like nothing they have attempted before.” Bright Eyes share punky, Beastie Boys-inspired single Rainbow Overpass, announce huge North American tour to follow European trek

Bright Eyes have offered a second preview of their forthcoming tenth album Five Dice, All Threes with the release of the punky Rainbow Overpass, featuring Alex Orange Drink of Brooklyn punks The So So Glos, who helped write frontman Conor Oberst write the album.

“Alex and I wrote a lot of the songs together, but Rainbow Overpass is the only one he gets a verse,” says Oberst. “He’s kinda like my hype man, getting a little Beastie Boys on the shit. They [The So So Glos] grew up on punk rock and the Beasties, so there are a lot of little bursts of other voices. I like that. It creates energy. Sometimes music can feel flat until you get into a live situation, when there’s adrenaline and raw energy. Instead of working in reverse, where that happens as we tour, I was trying to get some of that energy onto the record.”

Listen to Rainbow Overpass below:

Five Dice, All Threes, the follow-up to 2020’s Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was, is due for release on September 20 via Dead Oceans.

A press release for the album states: “Self-produced, and recorded at ARC Studios, in Omaha, Nebraska, Five Dice, All Threes is a record of uncommon intensity and tenderness, communal exorcism and personal excavation. These are, of course, qualities that fans have come to expect from Bright Eyes, nearly three decades into their career.