Mark Oliver Everett

MARK OLIVER EVERETT Takes It Easy On 15th Album ‘EELS TIME!’

Posted on by JL

10 June 2024

Fab weirdo Mark Oliver Everett and EELS
have their 15th LP, named EELS TIME! out.

Uncut (British music magazine: “Throughout his three-decade career, E has brought
a hushed beauty to the act of staring into the abyss, and his use of space on EELS TIME!
(all caps for added irony) makes this lonely guy seem that much more lost in space.”

TUTV: Sounds like Everett was all by himself in the studio to record this album with
its 12 tenebrific songs. Despite the exclamation mark in the LP’s title and E’s kicking
image on the cover, the overall sonic atmosphere is downcast and laid-back.

Moony lullabies, meditative musings, shadowy melodies, and a couple of half-lively tunes is what we get. Everett isn’t the happiest boy on the block, as we know him, and he reminds us of it for 41 mellow minutes. Sombre reveries for lonely nights.

Singles/clips: Goldy / If I’m Gonna Go Anywhere / Time

– GOLDY –

– IF I’M GONNA GO ANYWHERE –

– TIME –

ALBUM


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EELS With New Bluesy Goldfish Groove ‘GOLDY’ From Their Forthcoming Album

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Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant

27 March 2024

Fab weirdo Mark Oliver Everett and EELS drop
their 15th LP, named EELS TIME! on June 7.

Pre-order info here.

The release of this album follows a busy 2023 for the Los Angeles band, where they
finally hit the road for their long-awaited Lockdown Hurricane tour of Europe and North America and brought the year to a close by marking over three decades of the group
with the release of their second compilation album Eels So Good: Essential Eels, Vol.2.

Following the first single Time, a familiar-sounding Eels lullaby, we can now enjoy
the 2nd track off the upcoming LP. GOLDY is one of the songs Everett co-wrote with
All-American Rejects frontman Tyson Ritter. A bluesy groove with a comical story.

Wake up, people
Everett is in love
with a goldfish.

Ain’t it funny how the only one I need in the world
Is a goldfish swimming in a bowl
(Oh Goldy)

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MARK OLIVER EVERETT And EELS Share Familiar Lullaby ‘TIME’ From Their New Upcoming Album

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Reveries for the laziest day of the week

3 March 2024

EELS launch their 15th LP, named EELS TIME! on June 7.
Pre-order info here.

The release of this album follows a busy 2023 for the Los Angeles band, where they
finally hit the road for their long-awaited Lockdown Hurricane tour of Europe and North America and brought the year to a close by marking over three decades of the group with the release of their second compilation album Eels So Good: Essential Eels, Vol.2.

First single TIME is a familiar-sounding Eels lullaby.


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MARK OLIVER EVERETT And EELS Move And Groove On New Album ‘EXTREME WITCHCRAFT’

Posted on by JL

30 January 2022

Band: EELS (Los Angeles)
Who: Mark Oliver Everett‘s band
Active: Since 1995 / 14 studio albums

New album: EXTREME WITCHCRAFT,
Released: 28th January 2022

Everett about working with the album’s producer John Parish (best known for collaborating with PJ Harvey): “John Parish is one of the most even-tempered, polite
people I’ve ever met. A true gentleman. Actually he’s probably THE most polite person
I’ve ever met. But when he gets into the studio he becomes a mad scientist. If you make
music with John Parish, you get stuff no one else does. He has a really unique toolbox
and musical outlook. Perhaps his politeness is a coping mechanism to keep Mr. Hyde
under control when he’s out of his laboratory.”

Uncut Magazine (British music monthly): “Extreme Witchcraft snaps and snarls
more than usual, but wit, tunes and third-degree self-awareness continue to serve
the post-grunge, Randy Newman, well.” Score: 7/10.

Turn Up The Volume: Eels made another Eels album sounding like an Eels album.
But as Mark Oliver Everett moves and grooves, rocks and rolls like in the good days
Extreme Witchcraft feels like he’s having fun, although you never know for sure with
his capricious state of mind.

Singles/clips: Good Night On Earth / Steamy Engine / The Magic / Amateur Hour

– GOOD NIGHT ON EARTH –

– STEAMY ENGINE –

– THE MAGIC –
(My fav track on the album)

– AMATEUR HOUR –

Stream full album on Spotify…

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EELS: Facebook

Melancholic Crooner Does It Again – Here’s EELS And His New LP ‘EARTH TO DORA’

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31 October 2020

Band: EELS (Los Angeles)
Album: EARTH TO DORA – 13th LP
Released: 30 October 2020

NME says: “Mark ‘E’ Everett’s 13th album under his melancholic indie moniker is a life-
worn collection that charts the rise and fall of a relationship, exuding fragile hope… Eels’
most complete and self-contained record, arguably the epitome of their ouvre and a record
that places E – in his own gruff, xylophone-toting way –alongside the great downtrodden romantics: Cohen; Rufus Wainwright; Stephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields; Nick Cave. Just the
sort of bullheaded optimism we need, in fact, to see us through the cold winter ahead.”
Full review here. Score: 4/5.

Turn Up The Volume: Pick your favorite bottle of wine. Dim the lights. Relax on
your couch and press play with the remote control. Let Eels entertain you with his
break-up reveries, mixed emotions meditations and melancholic nightdreams. You’ll
feel better afterward because, after all, it’s about other people’s misery. That’s what
the E crooner accomplishes over and over again.

Key singles: Who You Say You Are / Baby Let’s Make It Real

– WHO YOU SAY YOU ARE –

– BABY LET’S MAKE IT REAL –

Full album…

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EELS – Philosopher MARK OLIVER EVERETT Returns With Sign Of The Times Single ‘DECONSTRUCTION’…

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17 January 2018

The EELS led by singer/songwriter and life philosopher MARK OLIVER EVERETT return with new, 12th album DECONSTRUCTION in April. Ina press statement Everett says about the new record: “Here are 15 new EELS tracks that may or may not inspire, rock, or not rock you. The world is going nuts. But if you look for it, there is still great beauty to be found. Sometimes you don’t even have to look for it. Other times you have to try to make it yourself. And then there are times you have to tear something apart to find something beautiful inside.”

The first single is the gloomy title track. A downhearted I break apart ballad. Beautifully arranged and nostalgically orchestrated. A touching mixed emotions musing. Here’s the audio track…

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