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Friday, September 11, 2009

EELS


EELS
SOULJACKER (2001)
320 KBPS

If irony could be traded like currency, Eels singer-songwriter E would be a wealthy man. As it is, his remarkable ability to filter out the mundane and focus on the fringes, where the really interesting cats dwell, guarantees he'll always have a career but will never be a household name. On Souljacker, E and the gang frame a motley assortment of characters with the sonic equivalent of a doodle pad--all random squiggles, free-floating words and phrases, disembodied hearts, and unblinking eyes. As such, unlikely bedfellows--"Dog Faced Boy," "Friendly Ghost," "Bus Stop Boxer," "Woman Driving, Man Sleeping"--are bundled in a patchwork quilt of guitars, bass, drums, organ grinder-style synth, and quite possibly a toy piano and percussion. The unabashedly goo-goo-eyed ballad "Fresh Feeling" launches with a swell of strings, just to underscore how dreamy our protagonist feels, and the spastic instrumental twitches on "That's Not Really Funny" counter the song's title, while doubling as one of the few elements able to snap E's voice out of its vaguely narcoleptic drone. Ruggedly individual and wickedly catchy (not to mention more upbeat than the two death-obsessed albums preceding it), Souljacker cements E's position as patron saint to the weird-and-weary-but-still-hopeful.

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

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

ne sachant pas ce qui m' a plu dans le premier album de eels, suis allé les voir en concert à un festival (+/- 10 ans) à Aix les bains, depuis j' en suis fan
Souljacker est un tres bon album en plus de ça
merci pour eux pour la reconnaissance de leur boulot

altos

Chuck E. Wonkers said...

Thanks this is dead sexy, would kill to hear the Eels black sessions. Love your work am off to have a Moodswing...

Ps: Hope all of you have a special Festivus and crazy new year :)