I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning LP fg_Catalog Number_MRG 340LP2 Issued in 1986

Issued in 1986

Cold War Kids have fielded music's seismic shifts while simultaneously sticking to their own game plan

has a way of changing perspectives and exposing the truth

While most of our songs are not overtly political

What started as a few extra unreleased tracks from my formative recording years quickly grew into an entire extra records-worth of music from my past

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning LP fg_Catalog Number_MRG 340LP2 Issued in 1986"The first three are innocent in a way, because we didn't have an audience when we were making them," Oberst says. "But from Lifted on, I was definitely aware of an audience. Lifted was well received right away, and then everything happened with Wide Awake and Digital Ash." Those two albums came out simultaneously. And their lead singles "Take It Easy (Love Nothing)," from the austere, remote Digital Ash, and "Lua," from the warm, folky Wide Awake