A project built on simple melodies, direct lyrics, and the occasional noisy experiment.
If you want the Eels sound in a couple of tracks, try 'Last Stop This Town' and 'Love of the Loveless.' They get at that mix of simple melody and personal reflection he does so well.
Eels gives you Mark Everett's ongoing notebook of personal history filtered through music. Songs like 'Not Ready Yet' and 'Mistakes of My Youth' show his plainspoken way with doubt and memory. The sound has shifted from the folk-rock of 'Hombre Lobo' to the denser arrangements on 'Blinking Lights and Other Revelations,' but it always feels like one person working things out.
Everett started recording as E in the early 1990s, and Eels' debut 'Beautiful Freak' arrived in 1996 with 'Novocaine for the Soul' getting some radio play. Family tragedies in the late 1990s became material for his writing, and he's worked with a changing group of musicians across more than ten albums since.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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