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I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning LP fg_Catalog Number_MRG 340LP2 Musicologist Matthew Mendez has identified"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