- Release Info -------------------------------------------------------------- -

  Artist:      Eels
  Album:       End Times
  Label:       Vagrant Records
  Playtime:    39:54 min
  Genre:       Rock
  URL:         http://www.vagrant.com
  Rip date:    2010-01-14
  Street date: 2010-01-19
  Size:        50.80 MB
  Type:        Normal
  Quality:     169 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo

- Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------- -

   Utters Mark Oliver Everett as EelsТ latest gets underway: УEverything was
   beautiful and free / In the beginning.Ф Over a threadbare backing track, he
   uses a few broad strokes to paint a picture of domestic bliss, his words at
   once tender, candid, and Ц this is an Eels record, after all Ц loaded with
   foreboding. What do you do when thereТs nothing to do? If youТre with the one
   you love, Everett suggests, do whatever. After all, youТve done the hard part
   already.

   End Times is concerned with what comes next: what happens when it ends, when
   for one reason or another Ц or many Ц you lose the one you love. The question
   here is less how you mend a broken heart, more how you mend a heart thatТs
   been battered, bruised and dragged around the block as many times as this
   one. The answers come peppered with dry wit and keen observation; the kind of
   pathos Everett has spent seven albums (nine, if you include early 90s works A
   Man Called E and Broken Toy Shop) perfecting.

   Although contemplation of heartache and loss is hardly Eels covering new
   ground (see 1998Тs wrenching Electro-Shock Blues, or 2005Тs sprawling double
   album Blinking Lights and Other Revelations), End Times plays to EverettТs
   strengths, offering enough intrigue and wonder to keep happy listeners new
   and old.

   While heТs always seemed more comfortable in the role of heart-on-sleeve
   troubadour than that of oddball alt-rocker, some of this discТs most
   delectable surprises emerge under the guise of the latter: Gone Man is a
   hugely enjoyable slice of scuzzed-up garage rock, Paradise Blues pleads
   humanity with a suicide bomber over the simplest of blues progressions, and
   Unhinged is exactly that, harking back to the bandТs earliest successes.

   If its title and artwork werenТt enough of a clue, Everett takes this
   opportunity to equate his situation with Уthe desperate times we live inЕ the
   end of common decency.Ф Yet End Times is not a hopelessly gloomy record; it
   is as startlingly direct and melodically assured as ever, even wrestling
   laugh-out-loud humour from moments of despondency (УOutside my window thereТs
   a cat in heat / Shut up cat, and leave me aloneФ).

   УIТm a man in great pain over great beauty,Ф he concludes; Уbut you know, IТm
   pretty sure that IТve been through worse / IТm sure I can take the hit.Ф At
   this point in the game, youТd be hard-pressed to disagree.

- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -

  01. The Beginning                                                     ( 2:16)
  02. Gone Man                                                          ( 2:59)
  03. In My Younger Days                                                ( 3:25)
  04. Mansions Of Los Feliz                                             ( 2:49)
  05. A Line In The Dirt                                                ( 3:30)
  06. End Times                                                         ( 2:57)
  07. Apple Trees                                                       ( 0:40)
  08. Paradise Blues                                                    ( 3:03)
  09. Nowadays                                                          ( 3:09)
  10. Unhinged                                                          ( 2:26)
  11. High And Lonesome                                                 ( 1:07)
  12. I Need A Mother                                                   ( 2:39)
  13. Little Bird                                                       ( 2:34)
  14. On My Feet                                                        ( 6:20)

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