elusive as an eel?

Each output of a album of Eels, psychological health is sinquiète of Mark Oliver Everett, aka E: is it happy or unhappy? We try to find signs in the lyrics of these songs, in general the mood of the music. Legitimate question dune way, when lon knows a little history and the dramas that hit songwtritter and when lon knows that I was able in the past to write very personal texts (see especially the album Electro-Shock Blues) But not necessarily very relevant regarding the appreciation of the group's albums.

And this latest installment shows the emptiness of these questions because the tracks here are largely blurred. Some take a few words the sign dune positive period as in New Alphabet "You Know what? Im in a good mood today. Well Im so happy, its not yesterday. " Yet these words are said in such a tone quon has trouble believing that it must take them at face value. For indeed it comes to these very lun and aggressive rock tracks which began Eels get used since Souljacker.

In reality, we must recognize that it is difficult to judge the overall tone of the album. We finally impression dune kind of synthesis of alternating, first, aggressive tracks like Bombs Away alarming that opens the disc and where guitars and voices mingle, or misleading Kinda Fuzzy the following, which starts as a title of electro pop and rhythm which gradually grows in strength, and secondly, softer songs, out of more or less subsided walks, as is the Rope (which could be on Daisies of the Galaxy, the lightest of the album group), more or less depressed, like Accident Prone, or The Turnaround, moon of the most beautiful songs ever written by E.

Because this is where probably moon of the great successes of the last delivery. Beyond the ever successful production, combining as usual rock-blues arrangements, more pop, sound experiments and discrete sounds, it is the very inspired compositions, very melodic (original True or Im Building a Shrine, each in a different register) without those titles that previously could be a bit boring, that make all lattrait, Completion last song, Wonderful, Glorious which conclude on a note to the resolutely optimistic blow with his hand pop rock hopping, and his merry coda.

What it was there for good with Eels, this is quau background they never disappoint, and quau end of 10th album, one feels no drop in level, no loss of inspiration, quite the contrary. On the contrary