Tomorrow Morning
Musically, there’s nothing groundbreaking about Tomorrow Morning, Eels’ ninth studio album. Longtime fans will recognize bits and pieces from across the career of frontman/songwriter/shaman Mark Oliver Everett: affected drum-and-electric piano stomp, winsome folk, the static of an old transistor radio. What they might…
It’s not exactly the party soundtrack of the summer, but ‘Tomorrow Morning’ finds the [a]Eels[/a] mainman nervously emerging from the relentless gloom of the last album ‘End Times’ (released just eight months ago) and finding that it’s not all bad.
On the third Eels album in 14 months, Everett completes a trilogy that began with the rockist Hombre Lobo in June of 2009, which addressed the ravenous hunger and cost of desire.
It has certainly been a prolific three years for Eels’ Mark Oliver Everett. Tomorrow Morning is his ninth studio album, the final part of a trilogy begun with Hombre Loco and End Times.
The perpetually-bearded E - AKA Eels’ Mark Oliver Everett - finds himself in surprisingly greener pastures on latest album ‘Tomorrow Morning’.
An Eels record on which Mark "E" Everett sounds happy and fulfilled? What's going on, wonders <strong>Caroline Sullivan</strong>