With his confessional, quavering delivery, ambivalent relationship with pitch and subtle mastery of genres like alt-country, indie rock and chamber pop, you could cast Conor Oberst as Dylan's emo heir, one whose talent is rivaled only by his ambition. Fevers & Mirrors was Oberst's third album as Bright Eyes and the one that finally earned the prolific 20-year-old long-overdue critical attention. It's a bold tapestry of moods, gestures and ambient ephemera culled from Oberst's fantastical, neurotic imagination. With multi-instrumentalist/engineer Mike Mogis, Cursive's Tim Kasher on accordion, and the Faint's Todd Baechle on keyboards (and playing a befuddled radio host on the arch "An Attempt to Tip the Scales"), Fevers is as rich a formative text as one could hope from a supremely gifted singer-songwriter on the cusp of adulthood.