Eels - Electro-shock Blues CDs • Vinyl Records • LPs • Music Albums

Sometimes you need to risk parody to get to someplace deep. E, the singer, songwriter and guitarist of Eels, takes that risk on Electro-Shock Blues (see what I mean?) and pulls it off impressively. The album is E's anguished response to the deaths of several friends and to his becoming, as a press release for the album states, "the last living member of his family." It's grim stuff – "Waking up is harder when you want to die" is a characteristic sentiment – and if you're at all prone to giggling during the serious parts, you won't last ten minutes. But E presses into the darkness and finds a sound to suit his subject. The stark, introspective guitar-bass-drums arrangements
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