End Times is listed on the UK Amazon.com, but not the American (yet).
Cal50 (Estranged Friends) points out that amazon.co.uk has the track listing for the End Times bonus disc (available on the deluxe version). It is:
01. EP Intro
02. Some Friend
03. Walking Cloud
04. $200 Tattoo
05. The Man Who Didn’t Know He’d Lost His Mind
From amazon.co.uk, at least, it’s available for preorder (for release on January 18, 2010). It’s 11 pounds and change.
A nice, if not entirely convinced, review of the Eels’ “Little Bird” has been posted to Blogcritics.
I still haven’t listened to the song myself. I think I can wait till January 19, if I don’t die first.
MP3s of E’s 1985’s LP debut Bad Dude In Love are now floating around the internets.
And hey–they aren’t my MP3s. I’m just the messenger.
The Eels official website reports that End Times, to be released January 19 of next year, will come in three editions: standard, deluxe and vinyl.
11/19/2009- END TIMES: STANDARD, DELUXE, & VINYL:
The new EELS END TIMES album (out January 19) will be issued as a standard 14 track single disc CD, a deluxe 2 disc CD set including a bonus EP with 4 non-album tracks, and 12″ vinyl with 7″ bonus EP. All will be available at the EELS online stores HERE.
So basically, you’re a chump if you buy the standard. I’m okay with that arrangement. I just hope the four non-album tracks aren’t stray b-sides (“Man Up”, &c.) or live versions of previously released songs. (I hope I didn’t just jinx it.)
Doesn’t anyone else find this creepy? Cool, but creepy?
Spinner.com has “Little Bird”, a track from the Eels’ upcoming End Times, available for streaming. I’m not going to listen–opting instead to hear the entire album fresh out of the box in January, so to speak–but you can listen here and then go to Estranged Friends to tell me how awesome it is.
The Official Website has posted the track listing and cover for End Times: Read the rest of this entry »
Paul Cashmere of underground.com.au reports the following about the Eels’ upcoming End Times:
Eels will follow-up this year`s `Hombre Lobo` with next year`s `End Times` in January.
‘End Times’ will take E from Eels back to reality after the fictional character ‘Hombre Lobo’ was based on. E calls the next album “the divorce album”.
‘End Times’ could be a bookend with E’s last break-up album ‘Broken Toy Shop’ from 1993.
‘Hombre Lobo’ came four years after its previous album so E says he does not want to waste any time this time. “I felt guilty about the long gap between the last two albums so I’m making up for lost time,” he says.
In the four year gap he wrote the book “Things My Grandchildren Should Know’ and worked on the documentary ‘Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives’ about himself and his physicist father Hugh Everett III.
Now its “back to my real job: making music full time,” he says.
Sounds very exciting, in a “hope you like being sad” way. And I mean that in the best way possible, believe it or not!
I’m shamelessly trying to drum up more traffic to this blog. And for some reason, hearing about End Times got all these songs stuck in my head, so… Read the rest of this entry »
Anyone interested in contributing to the third Eels tribute album should visit rockingeels.com for details. There’s a forum dedicated to such projects on Estranged Friends too.
Read up on and download the previous Eels tribute, 2006’s We’re Going to Stop Pretending That We Didn’t Break Your Songs, here.
