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After three years, two full-lengths under his own name, one alongside M. Ward and My Morning Jacket’s Jim James in Monsters Of Folk, as well as a brief reunion by his teenage-angst act Desaparecidos, Conor Oberst has announced that Bright Eyes will finally be releasing their seventh full-length on February 15. The People’s Key is the follow-up to Cassadaga and in order to support the album, the group will be performing at New York’s Radio City Music Hall on March 9 as well as London’s Royal Albert Hall on June 23.

The group—whose core is composed of Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott—recorded the album at their own studio in Omaha, Nebraska, where the disc was produced by longtime knob twiddler/collaborator Mogis. Of course, in typical Bright Eyes form, the disc also features contributions from Now It’s Overhead’s Andy LeMaster, Cursive’s Matt Maginn, Autolux’s Carla Azar, The Faint’s Clark Baechle and more.

The press release for the disc describes it as “an assured and accomplished album, artfully arranged and filled with the engaging and mesmeric songwriting for which Oberst is renowned.” Personally, we’re hoping for something as raw and impassioned as 2000’s Fevers And Mirrors, but with better recording quality.  A full tracklisting is listed below. (Our gut tells us that “Firewall” would have fit in better on Digital Ash In A Digital Urn but we’ll wait till we hear the album to make that judgment; we will however give immediate kudos to Oberst for writing a song about the Emperor of Ethiopia.)

The People’s Key Tracklist

1. Firewall
2. Shell Games
2. Jejune Stars
4. Approximate Sunlight
5. Haile Selassie
6. A Machine Spiritual (In The People’s Key)
7. Triple Spiral
8. Beginner’s Mind
9. Ladder Song
10. One For You, One For Me