End Times

VINYL FORMAT. LP version contains a bonus four track 7" (the tracks that constitute the bonus CDEP in the deluxe version of the CD). Gatefold sleeve. The eighth Eels studio album, 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 Eels leader Mark Oliver Everett aka 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. While the last Eels album, Hombre Lobo, tackled the subject of desire, "the before, the spark that ignites everything," Everett says, End Times is about the other side: the after. And while Hombre Lobo was written from the point of view of a fictional character, End Times is pure real life.