01 In Gratitude for this Magnificent Day (Instrumental)
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 (Instrumental)
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
“What I Have to Offer” was already performed on a few concerts on the “An Evening with Eels” tour in 2008.
Bonus EP:
01 Swimming Lesson
02 St. Elizabeth Story
03 Let’s Ruin Julie’s Birthday
04 For You
Released via EWorks on August 24 (August 20 in Germany/Austria)
E, Koool G Murder, Knuckles, The Amy Davies Choir, Tomorrow Morning Orchestra
Press Text (source: RollingStone/MUSICHEADQUARTER)
It was all worth it, to be here now…
Before the tumult and heartache, things were “beautiful and free” for a brief moment at the beginning of the last EELS album, END TIMES.
On that album EELS leader Mark Oliver Everett, aka E, sifted through the emotional wreckage of a romance gone wrong while living in an increasingly foreboding and unfriendly world. The follow-up to that harrowing work finds Everett not only recovered, but surprisingly invigorated — discovering something more permanently beautiful and free in the new album’s second track, “I’m a Hummingbird”. The ninth EELS studio album, TOMORROW MORNING, is the brightest and most overtly uplifting work of the EELS’ fourteen-year career.
The final installment of a trilogy that started with 2009’s HOMBRE LOBO and 2010’s END TIMES (released a half year from each other), TOMORROW MORNING finishes the story on a high note. Following a four year gap between EELS studio albums, HOMBRE LOBO dealt with what Everett called “The before. The hunger that starts everything.” Conversely, END TIMES tackled what he called “The after, and how you deal with the aftermath.” TOMORROW MORNING is “the redemption,” he says. “A new beginning and another chance. The blooming of all new possibilities. The hope that was always there coming to fruition.”
Unlike either the combustive garage-rock longing of HOMBRE LOBO or the stripped-down acoustic starkness of END TIMES, TOMORROW MORNING is a new musical landscape: electronic keyboards, drum machines, tape loops and found sounds. “It’s a very electronic album — sounds normally associated with a kind of ‘colder’ music,” says Everett, “but I wanted to make a warm album that was a celebration using electronic instruments to reflect joy in the times I live in.” Helping Everett bring the vibrant celebration to life are performances by longtime EELS bassist/keyboardist Koool G Murder and drummer/percussionist Knuckles, along with new EELS collaborators The Amy Davies Choir and Tomorrow Morning Orchestra.
It’s a bold, experimental and immediate new EELS sound. As Everett puts it, “There’s a lot going on in these songs.”
