After a four year wait, Eels released their highly-anticipated new album “The Deconstruction” via E Works. “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.” Eels singer-songwriter E (Mark Oliver Everett).
EELS – “You Are The Shining Light” – from “THE Deconstruction”, EELS 2019 Tour starts April 21st.
After a four year wait, Eels release their highly-anticipated new album The Deconstruction via E Works. “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.” Eels singer-songwriter E (Mark Oliver Everett).
Official video for “Rusty Pipes” from THE DECONSTRUCTION-– Out Now!
The Eels’ twelfth studio album and first in four years, The Deconstruction, was performed by E (Mark OliverEverett) and his longtime collaborators Koool G Murder and P-Boo alongside The Deconstruction Orchestra & Choir. It was produced by E, with some songs produced by Mickey Petralia for the first time since 1998’s Electro-Shock Blues. Eels mastermind E says of the new album, “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.”
It has been more than two decades since Eels first burst onto the scene with their gloriously offbeat debut album Beautiful Freak. Since then, the band’s chief creative force Mark Oliver Everett – better known simply as E – has delivered a dozen albums, written an autobiography, penned music for films an television shows and even fronted a BAFTA-winning documentary on the subject his father Hugh Everett, the physicist responsible for the ‘many-worlds’ theory which posits the existence of infinite universes.
After recording and touring relentlessly for much of the last couple of decades he decided to take a well-earned break, but this week Eels return with their first new album since 2014 and ahead of its release we sat down with the man himself to talk about the new album, his forays into acting, and hanging out with the cast ofMad Men…
Official video for “Today is the Day” from THE DECONSTRUCTION, out now!
“The world is going nuts,” says Eels frontman E, aka Mark Oliver Everett. “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.” That’s the basic idea behind The Deconstruction, EELS’ 12th album and first since 2014’s The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett. On Wednesday, the band announced that the album will have an April 6th release and released the haunting title track. “The deconstruction has begun, time for me to fall apart,” Everett sings over pillowy strings and some tape distortion. “The reconstruction will begin only when there’s nothing left.” The song revs itself up with crisp drums as Everett repeats, “I break apart” .
“The Deconstruction” from new EELS album, THE DECONSTRUCTION, out April 6th.
“I LIKE THE WAY THIS IS GOING” from EELS at the Royal Albert Hall Concert film & live album Out next tuesday
“It’s funny, it’s sad, and it works beautifully, on both 2CD + DVD
In May 2014 EELS embarked on an ambitious 53-show world tour. Starting in Phoenix, Arizona and crossing The United States and Canada before rolling through mainland Europe and Great Britain, the band performed spine-tingling shows at New York’s Apollo, Chicago’s Vic Theater, Los Angeles’ Orpheum Theater, The Montreux Jazz Festival and The Amsterdam Concert Hall, among many others. On the night of June 30th EELS returned to London’s legendary Royal Albert Hall for the first time in nine years to play a stunning show that was filmed and recorded.
In sharp contrast to the previous EELS tour that found the band in track suits playing high octane electric rock & roll, this EELS show was “a gentlemen’s EELS concert,” as EELS leader Mark Oliver Everett, aka E, puts it. Filmed by 12 cameras in the gorgeously-lit Royal Albert Hall, the new film and album find the EELS dapperly dressed in suits and ties, and all five band members stretching their musical capabilities past new boundaries, playing songs from 2014’s critically-acclaimed The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett for the first time along with songs spanning the EELS’ 19 year career. When they played Royal Albert Hall in 2005 they were accompanied by a string section. This time there are only the five core members of the band on stage throughout the concert, splitting their time between guitar, piano, pedal steel guitar, trumpet, upright and bowed bass, melodica, vibraphone, timpani, drums, concert chimes and glockenspiel. And the results are stunning.
The film features the band backstage preparing for the big night and captures the entire show from start to finish, as it happened, including Everett kissing the spot where John Lennon once stood on the stage, making his way to hug fans all the way around Albert Hall’s massive floor, returning for several encores, as well as a surprise “phantom” encore where Everett’s dream of playing the massive Albert Hall pipe organ for some spooky EELS classics finally comes true. Perhaps as a result of this fantastic show, EELS were quickly invited back for a second 2014 London show and Everett, once heavily-bearded and mistakenly suspected by London police to be a terrorist (while taking a break from press interviews in Hyde Park), was made an honorary citizen of London in a ceremony granting him Freedom of the City.
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