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Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn is one of two Bright Eyes albums (along with "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning") released on January 25, 2005 by Saddle Creek Records. It peaked at #15 in the US and #43 in the UK. In US it has sold 268,000 units. In 2007 it was awarded a gold certification from the Independent Music Companies Association which indicated sales of at least 100,000 copies throughout Europe.
Contrasted to the acoustic nature of
a commercial success and has sold over 250,000 copies, a breakthrough for the label and for all of the band's peers at that time. Oberst stated that, before making this record, both he and Mike Mogis had an idea for a "sort of grandiose sound" that neither could really put into words. This was also the first album made after Oberst's break to play with Desaparecidos.
History "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" / "Digital Ash in a Digital Urn" (2004–2005).
During