Tomorrow Morning

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AlbumAug 24 / 201019 songs, 57m 49s
Indie Pop Singer-Songwriter
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3.6 / 10

E returns with another exercise in self-referentiality and self-indulgences.

B

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.

Eels play 02 Academy, Glasgow on 24 Aug and HMV Picture House, Edinburgh on 25 Aug

7.0 / 10

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.

8 / 10

The perpetually-bearded E - AKA Eels’ Mark Oliver Everett - finds himself in surprisingly greener pastures on latest album ‘Tomorrow Morning’.

The album is aimed at delivering an uplifting, grand bow to a somber saga.

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An Eels record on which Mark "E" Everett sounds happy and fulfilled? What's going on, wonders <strong>Caroline Sullivan</strong>

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Eels - Tomorrow Morning review: E finally cracks a smile

There's not much new about Eels' Tomorrow Morning. Rating: * * *