Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
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Artist: EelsEdition: Music CD
Published: 1998
CD Release Date: 1998-10-20
Music Label: Dreamworks
Soundtracks:
- Elizabeth On The Bathroom Floor
- Going To Your Funeral Part 1
- Cancer For The Cure
- My Descent Into Madness
- 3 Speed
- Hospital Food
- Electro-Shock Blues
- Efil's God
- Going To Your Funeral Part II
- Last Stop: This Town
- Baby Genius
- Climbing To The Moon
- Ant Farm
- Dead Of Winter
- The Medication Is Wearing Off
- P.S. You Rock My World
Free Music Notes for Electro-Shock Blues
Free Music Review: Shockingly Powerful!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one powerful album! Considering the inspiration for much of it comes from the suicide of E's sister and the personal turmoil that resulted, how could it not be?
Track 1, with its wistful melancholy and deceptively gentle tone immediately punches us in the stomach with lyrics like "my name is Elizabeth my life is shit and piss." This sets the tone for an album that batters us with its heartbreaking revelations. For anyone who loves Eels, this is a must, for those of you who have yet to hear the genius of E, this is a must. The third track, "Cancer for the Cure" sounds like a bunch of deranged monsters jamming out bleakness. With its hypnotic bass line and trademark E synth, you will find yourself being sucked into wanting more, more, more! Tracks 4 is reminiscent of Daisies of the Galaxy--a brief departure from the brutal beats of the previous song--delivering us welcome relief with E's signature upbeat sarcasm. The music sounds sane, but the lyrics reveal otherwise.
"Going to your Funeral Part 2" is an instrumental that again reminds me of Daisies of the Galaxy. "Last Stop" is a psychedelic sounding song that takes one on a trippy ride through vocal experimentation. It is layered with a secondary voice--as if the conscience is speaking to us. It coaxes the singer along with a line like "I'm gonna fly on down for the last stop to this town." E lets it all hang out with this album--with its occasional distortion (Efil's God) and contradictory mellow interludes. But the mellow acoustic songs are no less seeped in turmoil than the harder, shocking sounds of the album. Rather, they make us wonder what constitutes insanity---with what seems like very lucid descriptions of the absurd.
"Ant Farm" has a country vibe, exemplifying the versatility of the Eels. One of the last tracks, "The Medication Is Wearing Off" has a Souljacker feel to it--it's as if we're coming down from a bad trip, realizing that we that we never went anywhere. It winds down with lyrics like, "Watch the day disintegrate so I can stay up late and wait."
This album is unrelenting in its darkness--and satisfies the soul in ways that only an Eels album can.
One of their best!
Electro-Shock Blues Poster
The sound of Eels' Electro-Shock Blues, the follow-up to the band's intriguing Beautiful Freak, reflects a year in which leader Mark "E" Everett suffered the loss of his sister to suicide as well as the illness of his mother and other tragedies. The music's hushed, sometimes dark sound and Everett's earnest vocals are often more convincing than his diary-entry lyrics, despite the power and daring inherent in describing illness in alt-pop settings that recall everything from hip-hop to Tom Waits. --Rickey WrightAlternative Rock Music CDs
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