E For Eels
* Eels with Strings: Bus Stop Boxer (4.0 mb) | Dirty Girl (3.5 mb) | Trouble With Dreams (5.0 mb) | The Only Thing I Care About (3.0 mb)
From Live At Town Hall : Vagrant Records
I first heard about Eels from one of my work partners. He wove a tale of lead guy Mark Everett, a pop auteur who, after releasing a very well received debut album, experienced great family tragedies. In coping with these tragedies, he crafted a pair of albums that, while stronger than his debut, were too depressing for the general public to appreciate. This album sees Mark teaming up with a string quartet and two other multi-instrumentalists to recreate songs from his back catalog. I haven’t heard too much stuff by this guy (in fact this album is the first that I’ve heard by him) but I definitely want to hear more.
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Akio said,
June 26, 2006 @ 8:14 pm
Eels is pretty cool. The one to get is Electro-Shock Blues, which is pretty brilliant, really an album-album rather than a singles-album.