Eels: End Times | CD review

Mark Everett's exquisite misery on this classic break-up album recalls more than a few greatsIf ever a soul were due some karmic jackpot, it's Mark Everett, the "E" in Eels. The career-launching hit that he enjoyed in 1997, "Novocaine for the Soul", doesn't count. Since then, his family have been picked off – victims to suicide, cancer and 9/11; close friends, too. These well-documented tragedies have fed half-a-dozen Eels albums that prodded the human condition with guitars, electronics ...

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