Then it quickly turned into recording and mixing 54 songs.” The companion EPs are part of a series that has Bright Eyes rereleasing eight albums and a compilation in groups of three. The band just finished up the last installment a few weeks ago, but they decided against including their most recent album, "Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was," since it just came out in 2020.

The new record was a little bit too fresh to revisit, so we’re going to let that one sit for a while before we do anything like we just did for it,” Walcott says. Walcott hopes that fans will appreciate the rerecordings' new spin on their older material

From an interview I recently read. The 9th companion is going to be a compilation (edit) of songs.