Bright Eyes serenades your tender heart on Saturday night at the Uptown

Conor Oberst’s musical scope, judging from Bright Eyes‘ history, is tightly tethered to the singer-songwriter’s physical location.

Over 13 years, Oberst’s fret-buzzing folk left the bland stretches of suburbia and lit out for the country, expanding into the orchestral indie-Americana of two critical blockbusters: Lifted, or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground and I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning. For what’s said to be the last Bright Eyes album, Oberst turns to that final frontier: space.