Better Oblivion Community Center
Artist
Better Oblivion Community Center is a folk-rock duo formed by American singer/songwriters Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers.
The duo met during a show at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles, where Oberst was playing a secret set and Bridgers was opening. Oberst would later appear on Bridgers’ track “Would You Rather” from her 2017 debut album, “Stranger in the Alps.“
In April 2017, they penned “I Didn’t Know What I Was In For,” the first song of what would be the Better Oblivion Community Center project. After casually writing for a year, they realized they had the makings of a full-length record and dropped their self-titled album by surprise in January 2019. A day before the release, she tweeted a phone number that you could call and hear one of the songs.
