new Eels album "End Times "out January 19th

[Cal50]

I submitted this as news but it didn't make the front page, so here :)

http://www.nme.com/news/eels/47829

Eels (http://www.nme.com/artists/eels) are to release a new album on January 18.

The record, 'End Times', follows hot on the heels of 'Hombre Lobo', which was released in June.

The new record features 14 "largely self-recorded" tracks made by Eels (http://www.nme.com/artists/eels) frontman E, real name Mark Oliver Everett, in his basement studio at his Los Angeles home.

The six-month gap between 'Hombre Lobo' and 'End Times' is the shortest ever gap between Eels (http://www.nme.com/artists/eels) albums. It’s in marked contrast to the four-year break between the former album and 'Blinking Lights And Other Revelations'.

[Cal50]

the article says 18th but 19th is a tuesday....

[jdr2187]

Great News! Just listened to Hombre Lobo earlier today!

[AlkalineAshes]

good to hear, one of my fave writers

[Cal50]

album cover and tracklist revealed:

http://eelstheband.com/discography/endtimes.htm

i have an old live version of "nowadays" and i just listened to it now that i know it's on the album.... this song has more harmonica than most eels songs, sounds kind of neil young-ish without outright sounding like him. but then again this is several years old and it has probably changed a little ever since, although the main backbone of the song probably hasn't

also i just wanted to say that the titles of the songs seem so much more interesting than the titles on hombre lobo for some reason. i know that's a very odd way to pre-judge an album, but i think this one is shaping up to be better even though none of us here have heard a single completed studio note of it

[IWasaCamera]

Hopefully better than Hombre Lobo.

[oddwithoutend]

HL was quite mediocre.

[IWasaCamera]

That look you give that guy
I wanna see
Lookin' right at me
If I could be that guy instead of me
I'd never let you down

It's like he holed up in a cabin and listened to Dashboard for months prior to recording.

[oddwithoutend]

haha Yeah, not a whole lot of maturity or substance to be found on that record.

[IWasaCamera]

I'd rather hear him sing about how horny he is for 12 songs like on Lilac Breeze. It's too late in the game to expect another Electro-Shock Blues.

[oddwithoutend]

haha Haven't explored his earlier material. Which of it would be worth my time?

[IWasaCamera]

The aforementioned Electro-Shock Blues (which I wrote a Retrospectacular about :-)) and Blinking Lights... although be warned, it's a double album.

[oddwithoutend]

Okay haha, I'll check out your piece. Thanks, Vinh.

[Cal50]

listen to 'little bird' from end times http://www.spinner.com/2009/11/11/eels-little-bird-song-premiere/

love it