On Repeat: Eels – Little Bird
Posted by: nick
First of all we must put our hands up for criminally overlooking Eels excellent Hombre Lobo album in our 2009 best albums list. There’s only so many hours in the day to listen to music and somehow that one slipped through the net until recently. We’re not about to make the same mistake with Eels forthcoming album ‘End Times’. Take a listen to the beautiful Little Bird as a taster of things to come. It’s vintage Eels.
For Fans Of: EELS
Our little voyage of rediscovery of Eels, one of our favourite ever bands, kicked off after recently lapping up the autobiography of the band’s frontman, songwriter and general genius E (Mark Oliver Everett), the excellent ‘Things The Grandchildren Should Know’.
The longest gap between albums in Eels history, four years between 2005′s Blinking Lights and Other Revelations and Hombre Lobo in 2009, is followed by the shortest ever gap, a mere six months between Hombre Lobo and the forthcoming End Times which is due out on January 19th 2010.
On the band’s website E talks of the new record saying the END TIMES he speaks of isn’t about “Mayan calendar conspiracy theory bullshit,” he says, but, “the state of the desperate times we live in. The bottom line-ness of it all. The end of common decency. The loss of caring about doing a good job. These are tough times. Who can you trust? Walter Cronkite is just a ghost.”
He also concludes, “This will be some people’s favorite EELS album and some people’s least favorite EELS album. I’m prepared for that.”
Stream Little Bird and grab it for free below.
