Better Oblivion Community Center is a duo comprising Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers. The duo told NME their name is intended to conjure "the duality of impending doom mixed with a positive about all being in this together."
Bridgers and Conor Oberst wrote and recorded their eponymous debut album in secret in Los Angeles in the summer and fall of 2018 and surprise released it on January 24, 2019. This is the lead single from the project.
The rollicking track is named for the famed Welsh poet. The first line of the first verse is taken from the title of one of Thomas' works. It was quite early one morning Hit me without warning Thomas' 1944 radio piece Quite Early One Morning was written for the BBC. His posthumous 1954 collection of prose poetry was later titled after the work.
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