Digital Ash in a Digital Urn is designed to be the musical polar opposite to the simultaneously-released I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, to be the ambitious, modernistic electronic record that stands in contrast to the sepia-toned, classicist acoustic LP. The production and arrangements may have changed, but Conor Oberst's preference to lyrics over music remains the same. Nevertheless, there is more variety and dynamicism on Digital Ash, which makes it a more interesting listen than its companion, even if it's hard not to escape the feeling that the album is Bright Eyes' take on the Postal Service's Give Up. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
I'm sorry, but does All Music Guide employ nothing but idiots? I mean I've read some of the most retarded album reviews since subscribing to Pandora, all from All Music Guide. I see very few parallels to Digital Ash and anything that the Postal Service has done other than the fact that they're both more electronic than acoustic. But then again, maybe I'm the idiot that's missing something, perspective's funny like that.