End Times

Eels | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 19, 2010)
• Original Release Date: 2010
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Vagrant Records
• ASIN: B002ZXMZG2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #50,972 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

2010 release, the eighth studio album from the Alt-Rock band led by Mark Oliver Everett (AKA E). End Times is the sound of an artist growing older in uncertain times. An artist who has lost his great love while struggling with his faith in an increasingly hostile world teetering on self-destruction. Largely self-recorded on an old four track tape machine by E in his Los Angeles basement, it's a 'divorce album' with a modern twist: the artist equates his personal loss with the world he lives in losing its integrity. V2.

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Honest, Elegiac, and Deeply Personal, January 23, 2010

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Maine Writer "David" (Maine, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: End Times (Audio CD)

I was a late arrival to the Mark Everett fan club. My bad luck. Once in a while, you find an artist who speaks to you. Who seems to be like you in ways that are uncanny. When it comes to Everett, I can't help but think it's his ability to write from a very genuine place -- to strum the strings of our common humanity in an original way. End Times is no exception. Some of the songs take a little time to get your ears and head around, but the deep pleasures are well worth the effort. At under three minutes long, Little Bird is a profound elegy to lost love, with a striking, repeated line that's beautiful in its simplicity and delivery: "God damn. I miss that girl." I Need a Mother oozes late night, brutal honesty -- told like that last truth that finally emerges, but only after a tortuous relationship has left you a husk. Those are just two of the gems. End Times reminds me of two other things I love: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Beck's Sea Change. They're each different creatures, but they roam the same dark countryside where it's hard to tell whether you're seeing the slender threads of dawn or the final glimmer of dusk.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Million Trees, January 25, 2010

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M. Buisman (Amsterdam) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: End Times (Audio CD)

"Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss." (Nick Hornby - High Fidelity).

Mark Everett wasn't the most cheerful guy to begin with. Deaths of parents and siblings leave a mark and his music with the eels has always had a sad undertone. And don't expect anything new on `End Times'. Let's face it, even the title is depressing. The theme of the album is a divorce and the ensuing depression. Recorded mostly at home on a simple four-track the songs are simple and vintage E. Mostly just him strumming some chords on a guitar or playing them on a keyboard.

Starting in heaven he slowly spirals down into the phases that are part of breaking up, including locking yourself up in your house without much outside interaction ( the beautiful Mansion of Loz Feliz). They are emotions that we have all gone through, at one point he explains seeing a million trees at the side of the road and feeling just like one of them, but still feeling lonely. At least he has his Little Bird to talk to and we have the eels we can listen to, to let us know that even though we feel awful at times, there are millions more that feel the same. (from [...])

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, January 22, 2010

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Musicman (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: End Times (Audio CD)

Sometimes EELS are up, sometimes they are down. Life has ups and downs. We have all felt like this at some point. An artist's duty is to reflect life. There's a reason this album is getting incredible reviews. It's great! My favorite EELS album since Electro Shock Blues.