Celebrating its 25th anniversary, 'Daisies of the Galaxy' returns on a limited edition glow-in-the-dark vinyl pressing. Featuring standout tracks like 'Grace Kelly Blues', 'I Like Birds', and 'Mr. E’s Beautiful Blues', this special release captures the charm and spirit that made the album a fan favorite. Pressed on high-quality luminous vinyl, it’s a striking collectible for longtime EELS listeners and new fans discovering the record’s mix of wit, warmth, and melody. A timeless snapshot of early 2000s alternative music, now glowing brighter than ever.

TRACK LISTING

1. Grace Kelly Blues
2. Packing Blankets
3. The Sound Of Fear
4. I Like Birds
5. Daisies Of The Galaxy
6. Flyswatter
7. It's A Motherfucker
8. Estate Sale
9. Tiger In My Tank
10. A Daisy Through Concrete
11. Jeannie's Diary
12. Wooden Nickles
13. Something Is Sacred
14. Selective Memory
15. Mr. E's Beautiful Blues
16. Birdgirl On A Cell Phone
17. Vice President Fruitley
18. Skywriting
19. Useless Trinkets
20. Taking A Bath In Rust
21. The Dark End Of The Street (Live)
22. The Cheater's Guide To Your Heart (Live)
23. Mr. E's Beautiful Remix

CROMLECH’s second album 'Of Owls and Eels' is a striking Black Metal release created by Impurus, a veteran musician active since the 1990s and known for his work with DIES ATER, CRYOGENIC and ALBEZ DUZ. Though rooted in cold Black Metal, the album boldly transcends genre conventions, blending harsh riffs and powerful drumming with eerie keyboards and surreal, dreamlike atmospheres. Dynamic, unpredictable and deeply atmospheric, the seven tracks balance brutality, melancholy and quiet reverie. The result is a dense, authentic work that defies the usual limits of solo Black Metal projects and confirms Germany’s enduring strength in the genre.

TRACK LISTING

1. Old Incineration Hymn
2. Past Forever
3. Owls In The Fog
4. Ice Curse
5. Eels (Part I)
6. The Quiet Witness
7. Mordlust

Originally released in 1998, Electro-Shock Blues is the emotional centerpiece of Eels’ catalogue - a stark, beautiful exploration of grief, survival, and ultimately, hope. Written in the wake of tragic personal losses, it blends fragile melodies with raw, often darkly humorous lyrics. From the haunting opener “Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor” to the defiant closer “P.S. You Rock My World,” it’s a deeply human record that doesn’t flinch from life’s hardest moments.

This special 2-disc edition is pressed on solid blue 140 gram 12” vinyl at 45 RPM offering upgraded sound from the original 10” 33 RPM edition and bringing new depth to its layered production. A landmark album of the late ’90s, Electro-Shock Blues remains a poignant, cathartic listen — as vital today as it was upon release.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Elizabeth On The Bathroom Floor
2. Going To Your Funeral Part I
3. Cancer For The Cure
4. My Descent Into Madness

Side B
1. 3 Speed
2. Hospital Food
3. Electro-Shock Blues
4. Efils' God

Side C
1. Going To Your Funeral Part II
2. Last Stop: This Town
3. Baby Genius
4. Climbing To The Moon

Side D
1. Ant Farm
2. Dead Of Winter
3. The Medication Is Wearing Off
4. P.S. You Rock My World

Eels’ 2001 album 'Souljacker' is a snarling, swaggering beast - part gutter-blues, part twisted lullaby. Produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey), it finds Mark Oliver Everett (E) trading the orchestral warmth of Daisies of the Galaxy for something sharper-edged, with jagged guitars, eerie loops, and lyrics that walk the line between menace and melancholy.

From the unhinged stomp of 'Dog Faced Boy' to the cinematic sweep of 'Fresh Feeling', 'Souljacker' is restless and unpredictable, channeling Tom Waits’ grit and the underbelly of American storytelling. This red reissue brings the album’s dark heart back into the light.

TRACK LISTING

1. Dog Faced Boy
2. That's Not Really Funny
3. Fresh Feeling
4. Woman Driving, Man Sleeping
5. Souljacker Part I
6. Friendly Ghost
7. Teenage Witch
8. Bus Stop Boxer
9. Jungle Telegraph
10. World Of Shit
11. Souljacker Part II
12. What Is This Note?

For the first time ever Eels 'Gentle Souls 2021 KCRW Session' is available on vinyl.

Performed by E, Koool G Murder, and The Chet

Recorded for the January 29th, 2021 EELS In Residence session on KCRW, Los Angeles, CA.

TRACK LISTING

Anything For Boo
Earth To Dora
Are We Alright Again
Love And Mercy
Baby Let's Make It Real

Performed by:
E, piano & vocals
P-Boo, piano
MC: Judd Apatow

Recorded December 6th, 2019 at Largo at the Coronet, Los Angeles, California, celebrating Judd Apatow's birthday -- A benefit for Children's Hospital L.A.

TRACK LISTING

I Need Some Sleep
It's A Motherfucker
That Look You Give That Guy
Raspberry Beret

The release of this album – the group’s 15th studio album – follows a busy 2023 for Eels, where they finally hit the road for their long-awaited Lockdown Hurricane tour of Europe and North America and brought the year to a close by marking over three decades of the group with the release of their second compilation album Eels So Good: Essential Eels, Vol.2.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: There's no mistaking Mark Oliver Everett's vocals or songwriting, and from the first moments of 'Time' it's clear that this is classic Eels, perfectly balancing unfussy beauty with mournful reflection. It's hard to believe the Eels are 15 albums down, and still coming up with some of the best music of their career.

TRACK LISTING

1 Time
2 We Won’t See Her Like Again
3 Goldy
4 Sweet Smile
5 Haunted Hero
6 If I’m Gonna Go Anywhere
7 And You Run
8 Lay With The Lambs
9 Song For You Know Who
10 I Can’t Believe It’s True
11 On The Bridge
12 Let’s Be Lucky

Eels presents their second best of 'Eels So Good', a compilation comprising of 20 tracks spanning their 2007-2020 material. Five tracks make their vinyl debut here, with three of these previously unreleased - one of which being 'Christmas, Why You Gotta Do Me Like This'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Fresh Blood
2. That Look You Give That Guy
3. A Line In The Dirt
4. Little Bird
5. Spectacular Girl
6. I Like The Way This Is Going
7. Peach Blossom
8. Wonderful, Glorious
9. Where I'm From
10. Mistakes Of My Youth
11. The Deconstruction
12. Today Is The Day
13. You Are The Shining Light
14. Are We Alright Again
15. Earth To Dora
16. Royal Pain
17. Man Up
18. Man I Keep Trying
19. JAZZ HANDS Part I
20. Christmas, Why You Gotta Do Me Like This

The electric eels were the first punk band, full stop. They may not have “started” the genre, but they were the first to tick all the boxes. The eels rejected every 1970s rock convention—professionalism, virtuosity, subject matter, image. Dave E.’s caustic vocals, complete with an aggressive lisp and a head full of snot, would become de rigeur a few years after the group disbanded. Meanwhile, the songs’ focus on car crashes, suicide, neuroses, and generally hating people were as far out of the mainstream as possible. The two eels tracks that do approach the subject of romance couch it in terms of not really caring that much about it (“Jaguar Ride”) or placing it in the context of a grisly murder (“Silver Daggers”). Also consider John Morton’s signature guitar sound, a nails-on-chalkboard tone with brutally free soloing inspired more by Albert Ayler than the blues or aspirations to technical facility. Ditto Dave E.’s clarinet playing and affection for lawnmowers and vacuums during live performance. They were notoriously violent not only among themselves, but towards audiences, police, and anyone unfortunate enough to be around them when things went south. Then of course there are the leather jackets, the clothing festooned with rat traps or safety pins. And no bass player, why bother. There is simply no other “proto” band to have had all these pieces in place circa 1973- 1975.

Yet it is a mistake to consider the eels exclusively in such a context. Yes, the eels could and did shock anyone who encountered them, but they also had great songs. While both Dave and John were visionary writers, they also had rhythm guitarist Brian McMahon, a melody and riff machine who wrote many of the band’s signature songs. And they were no one-trick pony. Although much of the band’s material is appropriately high-energy, there is also the downer eels—morbid, harmonically risky, and in full existential crisis. Although it’s not a focus of this compilation, the eels also had a penchant for completely free improvisation.

Over the last forty plus years, there have been several electric eels compilations. Spin Age Blasters is quite simply the best one ever assembled, every single key track is here in its best version, properly mastered by John Golden, and sequenced with an eye towards both flow between tracks as well as individation between sides. A true monster of an album.

TRACK LISTING

1. Splitterty Splat
2. Wreck And Roll
3. You're Full Of Shit
4. Tidal Wave
5. Refrigerator (alt)
6. Cold Meat
7. Spinach Blasters
8. Jaguar Ride
9. Zoot Zoot
10. Giganto (Cyclotron)
11. Bunnies
12. Roll On, Big O
13. You Crummy Fags
14. No No
15. Sewercide (alt)
16. Silver Daggers
17. As If I Cared
18. Natural Situation
19. Cards And Fleurs
20. Agitated (orig)
21. Cyclotron
22. Black Leather Rock
23. Dead Man's Curve
24. Safety Week
25. Accident
26. Anxiety
27. No Nonsense

“When it was time to master the BLINKING LIGHTS reissue I needed to listen to the whole double album for the first time since it came out in 2005, and I was surprised by what I heard. It was an intense and emotional experience for me and I felt proud of it and overwhelmed by how hard we worked on it. I’ll start mentally preparing to listen to it again when its reissued again in 10 years.”

TRACK LISTING

1 Theme From Blinking Lights (Remastered For Vinyl)
2 From Which I Came / A Magic World (Remastered For Vinyl)
3 Son Of A Bitch (Remastered For Vinyl)
4 Blinking Lights (For Me) (Remastered For Vinyl)
5 Trouble With Dreams (Remastered For Vinyl)
6 Marie Floating Over The Backyard (Remastered For Vinyl)

1 Suicide Life (Remastered For Vinyl)
2 In The Yard, Behind The Church (Remastered For Vinyl)
3 Railroad Man (Remastered For Vinyl)
4 The Other Shoe (Remastered For Vinyl)
5 Last Time We Spoke (Remastered For Vinyl)

1 Mother Mary (Remastered For Vinyl)
2 Going Fetal (Remastered For Vinyl)
3 Understanding Salesman (Remastered For Vinyl)
4 Theme For A Pretty Girl That Makes You Believe God Exists (Remastered For Vinyl)
5 Checkout Blues (Remastered For Vinyl)
6 Blinking Lights (For You) (Remastered For Vinyl)

1 Dust Of Ages (Remastered For Vinyl, Explicit)
2 Old Shit / New Shit (Remastered For Vinyl, Explicit)
3 Bride Of Theme From Blinking Lights (Remastered For Vinyl)
4 Hey Man (Now You're Really Living) (Remastered For Vinyl)
5 I'm Going To Stop Pretending That I Didn't Break Your Heart (Remastered For Vinyl)

1 To Lick Your Boots (Remastered For Vinyl)
2 If You See Natalie (Remastered For Vinyl)
3 Sweet Li'l Thing (Remastered For Vinyl)
4 Dusk: A Peach In The Orchard (Remastered For Vinyl)
5 Whatever Happened To Soy Bomb (Remastered For Vinyl)
6 Ugly Love (Remastered For Vinyl)

1 God's Silence (Remastered For Vinyl)
2 Losing Streak (Remastered For Vinyl)
3 Last Days Of My Bitter Heart (Remastered For Vinyl)
4 The Stars Shine In The Sky Tonight (Remastered For Vinyl)
5 Things The Grandchildren Should Know (Remastered For Vinyl) 

TRACK LISTING

In Gratitude For This Magnificent Day
I'm A Hummingbird
The Morning
Baby Loves Me
Spectacular Girl
What I Have To Offer
This Is Where It Gets Good
After The Earthquake
Oh So Lovely
The Man
Looking Up
That's Not Her Way
I Like The Way This Is Going
Mystery Of Life 

Critically acclaimed rock group EELS announce vinyl reissues of earlier records ‘End Times’, ‘Hombre Lobo’ and ‘Tomorrow Morning’, released via E Works / [PIAS].

EELS have had one of the most consistently acclaimed careers in music. The ever-changing project of principal singer / songwriter E (Mark Oliver Everett), EELS have released 14 studio albums since their 1996 debut, ‘Beautiful Freak’. In 2008, E published his highly acclaimed book, ‘Things the Grandchildren Should Know’, and starred in the award-winning ‘Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives’ documentary about the search to understand his quantum physicist father, Hugh Everett III.

TRACK LISTING

1 Prizefighter
2 That Look You Give That Guy
3 Lilac Breeze
4 In My Dreams
5 Tremendous Dynamite
6 The Longing
1 Fresh Blood
2 What's A Fella Gotta Do
3 My Timing Is Off
4 All The Beautiful Things
5 Beginner's Luck
6 Ordinary Man 

Critically acclaimed rock group EELS announce vinyl reissues of earlier records ‘End Times’, ‘Hombre Lobo’ and ‘Tomorrow Morning’, released via E Works / [PIAS].

EELS have had one of the most consistently acclaimed careers in music. The ever-changing project of principal singer / songwriter E (Mark Oliver Everett), EELS have released 14 studio albums since their 1996 debut, ‘Beautiful Freak’. In 2008, E published his highly acclaimed book, ‘Things the Grandchildren Should Know’, and starred in the award-winning ‘Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives’ documentary about the search to understand his quantum physicist father, Hugh Everett III.

TRACK LISTING

1 The Beginning
2 Gone Man
3 In My Younger Days
4 Mansions Of Los Feliz
5 A Line In The Dirt
6 End Times
1 Apple Trees
2 Paradise Blues
3 Nowadays
4 Unhinged
5 High And Lonesome
6 I Need A Mother
7 Little Bird
8 On My Feet 

Eels release their fourteenth studio album Extreme Witchcraft on the band’s own E Works Records. Eels leader Mark Oliver Everett, aka E, co-produced the record with PJ Harvey producer and guitarist John Parish, marking the first time the two have recorded together since 2001’s Souljacker album Eels have had one of the most consistently acclaimed careers in music. The ever-changing project of principal singer/songwriter E (Mark Oliver Everett), Eels have released 13 studio albums since their 1996 debut, Beautiful Freak. In 2008, E published his highly acclaimed book Things the Grandchildren Should Know and starred in the award-winning Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives documentary about the search to understand his quantum physicist father, Hugh Everett III. 2020’s Earth To Dora album, received extensive critical praise, and was described as “their sweetest natured album ever” by The Independent and awarded four stars in MOJO and NME.

TRACK LISTING

1. Amateur Hour
2. Good Night On Earth
3. Strawberries & Popcorn
4. Steam Engine
5. Grandfather Clock Strikes Twelve
6. Stumbling Bee
7. The Magic
8. Better Living Through Desperation
9. So Anyway
10. What It Isn’t
11. Learning While I Lose
12. I Know You’re Right

Recorded at the EELS’ Los Feliz, California studio, ‘Earth to Dora’ was produced by band leader Mark Oliver Everett a.k.a. E, and performed by E, Koool G Murder, The Chet and P-Boo.

Speaking about the new record, E says: “These songs came about just before the pandemic hit and changed everything. I’m hoping they can be, maybe kind of soothing or something. To hear songs dealing with things we are dreaming about getting back to. Or maybe people are dealing with some of the topics right now as well. Just one song was done in the thick of the early pandemic days, ‘Are We Alright Again’, which is kind of a quarantine daydream I desperately needed to have.”

‘Earth to Dora’ marks the 13th full length EELS album, and first since 2018’s ‘The Deconstruction’, their first in four years, the album was released to widespread acclaim and described as “another EELS album to treasure” by MOJO, “overwhelming” by Uncut, and “a career-straddling greatest hits collection, in which all the ‘hits’ are brand new,” by CLASH.

EELS have had one of the most consistently acclaimed careers in music. The ever-changing project of principal singer/songwriter E (Mark Oliver Everett), EELS have released 12 studio albums since their 1996 debut, Beautiful Freak. In 2008, E published his highly-acclaimed book Things the Grandchildren Should Know and starred in the award-winning Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives documentary about the search to understand his quantum physicist father, Hugh Everett III.

2015 saw the release of the band’s extraordinary Royal Albert Hall live album and concert film. In the same year, the band’s “Fresh Blood” served as the theme song to HBO’s “The Jinx” and from 2016 to 2018 E appeared in Judd Apatow’s Netflix original series “Love.” EELS released their 12th studio album, and first in four years, ‘The Deconstruction’ in April 2018 and toured America and Europe in 2018 and 2019. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: 13 ALBUMS!! There's something to be said for a band that manage to keep bringing the goods year after year, and Eels are one of the best examples. 'Earth To Dora' has all of the melodicism and hidden melancholy that we expect from the LA stalwarts.

TRACK LISTING

1. Anything For Boo
2. Are We Alright Again
3. Who You Say You Are
4. Earth To Dora
5. Dark And Dramatic
6. Are You Fucking Your Ex
7. The Gentle Souls
8. Of Unsent Letters
9. I Got Hurt
10. OK
11. Baby Let's Make It Real
12. Waking Up

After a four year wait, EELS will release their highly-anticipated new album The Deconstruction via E Works/[PIAS].

“Here are 15 new EELS tracks that may or may not inspire, rock, or not rock you. The world is going nuts. But if you look for it, there is still great beauty to be found. Sometimes you don’t even have to look for it. Other times you have to try to make it yourself. And then there are times you have to tear something apart to find something beautiful inside.”

EELS singer-songwriter E (Mark Oliver Everett).

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: From the bubblegum sweetness (and reticent unease) of Eels' early works to todays melancholic and refined productions, Mark Oliver everett has maintained his impeccable ear for melody and unrivalled attention to detail. 'The Deconstruction' is in many ways the pinnacle of their works to date, instantly recognisable but undeniably boundary-pushing.

TRACK LISTING

The Deconstruction
Bone Dry
The Quandary
Premonition
Rusty Pipes
The Epiphany
Today Is The Day
Sweet Scorched Earth
Coming Back
Be Hurt
You Are The Shining Light
There I Said It
Archie Goodnight
The Unanswerable
In Our Cathedral