The latest Eels album, Tomorrow Morning, is the third part to a trilogy of albums the band has released over the past year or so. That’s a really important thing to know if you are an Eels fan but not so much if you are not. The reason this bit of information is important to Eels fans is that this album is really optimistic. The theme across the trilogy is love, I guess. The first album, Hombre Lobo is about desire and falling in love while the second album, End Times, is about losing it all. With Tomorrow Morning, Eels main man E sees hope in the dawn of a new day. And for a guy that is constantly slagged for being such a downer, Tomorrow Morning proves that E doesn’t have to be working from a broken heart in order to write. Tomorrow Morning ins’t my favorite Eels album but it’s creeping up into the top three. That’s saying a lot since E and the Eels are responsible for one of my favorite albums of all time. This album is also a step back towards earlier Eels material. The album incorporates a lot more loops and electronic noise and beats that have been (for the most part) absent in most of the Eels recent work (Blinking Lights excluded). Where the last album, End Times, was dark and quiet this album is upbeat both lyrically and musically. Not all the tracks are danceable but they are all good. As I tend to gravitate towards the slower songs the best track on here for me is the sweet and softer “What I have to Offer.” The jam like “This Is Where It Get’s Good” is a close contender to my favorite on the disk. |
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