Eels are releasing their fifteenth studio album.
Eels are releasing their fifteenth studio album
Titled EELS TIME!, the band introduced on Thursday (29.02.24) the file is due for launch on 7 June by way of E Works/Play It Once more Sam.
Together with the announcement, the group shared its acoustic-led opening monitor ‘Time’ – the results of their first in-person recording session because the starting of the Covid pandemic.
A press launch asserting the brand new launch mentioned: “The album information follows a busy 2023 for Eels, the place they lastly hit the street for his or her long-awaited ‘Lockdown Hurricane’ tour of Europe and North America and introduced the yr to an in depth by releasing their second better of compilation album ‘Eeels So Good: Important Eels, Vol.2’ and a model new monitor, ‘Christmas, Why You Gotta Do Me Like This’.”
Recorded between Los Feliz, California and Dublin, Eire, EELS TIME! consists of 12 new tracks with collaborators comparable to Koool G Homicide, The Chet, Tyson Ritter, Sean Coleman and extra.
Eels – an ever-changing mission of its 60-year-old lead singer and songwriter E, actual identify Mark Oliver Everett – have had one of the vital constantly acclaimed careers in music, and have launched 14 studio albums since their 1996 debut ‘Stunning Freak’.
In 2008 E printed his extremely acclaimed ebook ‘Issues the Grandchildren Ought to Know’ and starred within the award-winning ‘Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives’ documentary in regards to the search to grasp his quantum physicist dad Hugh Everett III.
E just lately mentioned he discovered Christmas a little bit of a “bummer” in a chat to mark the discharge of the band’s third festive music, ‘Christmas, Why You Gotta Do Me Like This’.
He advised The Solar about his emotions on the festive season: “I’m all for the jolly Christmas and I’ve had some very jolly Christmases myself.
“As a child rising up in America, I used to be fairly happy simply to take a seat at nighttime watching the tree lights blink. I didn’t have my Nintendo Swap!
“However I do assume it’s necessary to do not forget that BEFORE Ebenezer Scrooge turns into the great man who buys everyone Christmas dinner, Tiny Tim’s fairly depressing.
“So I believed, ‘Let’s do some music for him.’”
E added in regards to the melancholy really feel of his band’s new monitor: “It’s fairly relentless, however at the very least the sleigh bells routinely evoke snow falling.
“As an grownup, I’ve had Christmases, in all probability like everyone, that are simply very unhealthy timing.
“I needed to do a music for that man or lady who has simply purchased an costly current for his or her accomplice after which acquired damaged up with.”
The music options the strains: “I put up my lights and I hung the mistletoe/So why did you need to go away me on their own?”