Mark Oliver Everett might be one of the most prolific songwriters of the last couple decades. Following a solo career known under his pseudonym ‘E’, he joined forces with Tommy Walter (better known as the Abandoned Pools frontman) and Eels was born. Walter’s time with Eels was short lived, and after his departure Eels essentially became E and a rotating case of studio and touring players. <\/p>\n
Following an exceptional trilogy of concept albums, E takes a different approach with Wonderful, Glorious, <\/i>the tenth Eels album. Having a consistent band for the last few years has allowed E to let others enter his songwriting process, and it results in a very eclectic and often-louder listen than we’re accustomed to. The first track, \u201cBombs Away,\u201d is aptly titled \u2013 this is Eels not holding anything back. \u201cPeach Blossom\u201d solidifies this notion as it shudders with distorted blues rock, and later in the disc, \u201cOpen My Present\u201d continues this idea and builds off a memorable, dirty rock riff.<\/p>\n
As always, there are plenty of sparse moments, and not so surprisingly they are tinged with sadness. E has often made his private struggles public in song, and this is no different. \u201cTrue Original\u201d and \u201cAccident Prone\u201d both ache in his inimitable gritty way. However, there is plenty of optimism as well; \u201cKinda Fuzzy\u201d references the sun shining brightly and \u201cNew Alphabet\u201d concerns E altering his ways for the better. <\/p>\n
Ultimately a band with a vision all its own, Wonderful, Glorious <\/i>sounds like a garage rock album open to a lot of experimenting. Fuzzy, charged alt-rock and pensive ballads work well together, as do the electronic noises against the blues, country, and raw, driven rock. All the hallmarks of an Eels album are here \u2013 creative, unpredictable, and confessional. Forever known as a tortured genius (and rightfully so considering the tragedies in his life), this installment of E’s life might be less bleak but certainly is as luminous as anything he’s been involved in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":31351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8536],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-43050","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-eels","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=43050"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=43050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}