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Eels is offering up a taste of the new Tomorrow Morning album by offering up a free download of “Looking Up.”

Download “Looking Up” at www.eelstheband.com. The album is said to be the “brightest and most overtly uplifting work of the EELS’ fourteen year career.”

Look for Eels on tour beginning August 3 and for Tomorrow Morning to hit stores August 24.

EELS have unveiled the cover artwork and announced the track list for the new Tomorrow Morning album, out August 24 via E Works Records.

Track Listing:
01   In Gratitude For This Magnificent Day
02   I’m A Hummingbird
03   The Morning
04   Baby Loves Me
05   Spectacular Girl
06   What I Have To Offer
07   This Is Where It Gets Good
08   After The Earthquake
09   Oh So Lovely
10   The Man
11   Looking Up
12   That’s Not Her Way
13   I Like The Way This Is Going
14   Mystery Of Life

Eels are set to release a new album entitled Tomorrow Morning, August 24, 2010 and embark on a world tour August 3. Eels leader Mark Oliver Everett, aka E calls the 14 track album the final installment of a trilogy that began with Hombre Lobo (June 2009) and End Times (January 2010). Following a four year absence, Tomorrow Morning will be the third new Eels album in a little over a year and a half and will be released on the Eels’ E Works Records label. The world tour starts in Santa Ana, California, hitting Japan, Australia, Europe, United States and Canada. It will be the first time Eels have performed live since the release of Hombre Lobo, End Times and the new album.

by Rocky Schenck

EELS 2010 World Tour dates:
August 3         Santa Ana, California   Galaxy Theater    warm-up show
August 7         Tokyo, Japan Marine Stadium, Summersonic Festival
August 8         Osaka, Japan Maishima, Summersonic Festival
August 13       Brisbane, Australia   The Tivoli
August 14      Sydney, Australia   The Enmore Theater
August 15      Melbourne, Australia   The Palace
August 20       Hasselt, Belgium    Pukkelpop Festival
August 21       Stafford, UK   V Festival
August 22       Chelmsford, UK   V Festival
August 24       Glasgow, Scotland    Academy
August 26       Birmingham, UK   Academy
August 28       Zurich, Switzerland Winterhur Festival
August 29       Paris, France   Rock en Seine Festival
August 30       Amsterdam, Holland    Paradiso
September 1    London, UK    Brixton Academy
September 3   Dublin, Ireland    Electric Picnic Festival
September 4   Manchester, UK    Academy
September 5   Luxembourg     Den Atelier
September 6    Groningen, Holland   Oosterpoort
September 7   Hamburg, Germany   Grosse Freiheit
September 8    Copenhagen, Denmark  Vega
September 10  Berlin, Germany   Astra
September 11  Munich, Germany  Theaterfabrik
September 12  Vienna, Austria    Arena
September 13  Graz, Austria    Orpheum
September 14  Hohenems, Austria    Eventcenter
September 15  Milan, Italy    Alcatraz
September 17  Barcelona, Spain    Bikini
September 19   Lisbon, Portugal    Coliseum
September 22   Philadelphia, PA    World Cafe Live
September 23   Richmond, VA   The National Theater
September 24   Boston, MA    The Royal
September 25   New York, NY    Terminal 5
September 26   Washington, DC    9:30 Club
September 28   Montreal, Canada    Le National
September 29   Toronto, Canada   The Mod
September 30   Detroit, MI    The Crofoot
October 1         Chicago, IL    The Metro
October 2         Milwaukee, WI    The Pabst Theater
October 3         Minneapolis, MN   First Avenue
October 5         Denver, CO    The Ogden Theater
October 6         Salt Lake City, UT   The Complex
October 8         Portland, OR    Roseland
October 9         Seattle, WA   TBA
October 11       San Francisco, CA   The Fillmore
October 12       Los Angeles, CA    Henry Fonda Theater

End Times, the latest album from Eels, the project of Mark Oliver Everett, better known as E, and current members Koool G Murder and Knuckles (the group could be called a collective of sorts, with a revolving lineup and E at the helm) is a salty, sinuous tale of melancholy pop, sobering lyrics, plucky lullabies, and troubled, bluesy guitar scratch. Mostly recorded on a four track, End Times panders to the notion of form meets content, where busted hearts express themselves through a long forgotten transmission source. The songs, raw and unadorned, have the kind of great range that movie stars aspire to, the ability to be many things at once and to completely transform with each performance or in this case song. 

From the disquieting whispers on “The Beginning” to the jangling roadhouse rock n’ romp of “Paradise Blues,” End Times is inspiration for something simpler. On “Nowadays,” E is accompanied by a thick as molasses, heavy-handed strum and sings, “the truth is something no one really wants to hear you say…just how do you do and have a nice day…” There’s certainly a familiar kind of denial or “wash it down” sentiment that needles through all of the songs on this beautiful and tragic album. E punctuates his grizzly gulps, so to speak, with the eerie, ambient “High and Lonesome,” a decoupage of noise: pouring rain and passing cars, a knock at the door, a buzzing dial tone, and even plays with some spoken word on “Apple Trees,” all of which set the dark and stormy stage where E’s misery unfolds.

Despite the greatly satisfying gloom on the bulk of the album, there are poppier hints throughout, like the campy la-la-la on “Mansions of Los Feliz,” or the tinny 60s beat on “Unhinged,” one that’s offset by a kind of Cobain gruff that reaches for a girl with “crazy eyes.” You know the kind. I guess that’s the thing about this album that has me so swept; it’s a pulling familiarity – one that’s easily recognized. You too have tried to make sense of it all. You’ve been bruised, you’ve thrown a few punches and you’ve opted to shoot down the truth at a bar instead of dealing with it. End Times is that feeling: that burning, cold, lonely feeling. And in the end, just like the album closer “Little Bird” delicately reveals, we all just want to be loved.

Track Listing:

1. The Beginning
2. Gone man
3. Mansions Of Los Feliz
4. A Line In The Dirt
5. End Times
6. Apple trees
7. Paradise Blues
8. Nowadays
9. Unhinged
10. High and Lonesome
11. I Need A Mother
12. On My Feet
13. Little Bird

The eighth Eels studio album End Times will be released January 19, 2010, only six months after the latest and highest-charting EELS album, Hombre Lobo.

The new album features 14 tracks largely self-recorded by Eels leader Mark Oliver Everett, aka E, in his Los Angeles basement studio. This is the shortest gap between EELS albums.

The Eels will keep their website updated with more information as it becomes available.

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