Cassadaga

Cassadaga is the eighth studio album by Bright Eyes, released in the UK on April 9, 2007, and in the US on April 10. Around 25 to 30 songs were recorded in 2006, with 13 of these appearing on the final track list. The album is named after the town of Cassadaga, Florida, a community of mediums and followers of spiritualism. Z Berg of the Like, Sherri DuPree and Stacy King of Eisley, and singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata all appear on this album. The first single, "Four Winds", was released on March 6, 2007, taken from the Four Winds EP, which contains five B-sides not on Cassadaga. Cassadaga debuted at number four on the Billboard 200, becoming the band's highest-charting album in the US, and sold about 58,000 copies in its first week. It went on to sell over 231,000 units in US. The album is the 103rd release of Saddle Creek Records. This album was number 12 on Rolling Stones list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007. Cassadaga reached number 13 on the UK Albums Chart in April 2007. The first single from the album, "Four Winds", can be heard in the background briefly during the party scene in the 2008 film Cloverfield. The album will be reissued by Dead Oceans alongside a six-track companion EP on June 16, 2023.