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Nov 4, 2024With Congleton at the helm, the track sequencing and production are near perfect. For an album brimming with ideas, EELS only contains one minor misstep, which is a matter of taste. For all its simplicity, the tongue-in-cheek send-up of “Rock n’ Roll Hurts”, could have been a sincere offering but devolves into giggles (yes, we get the over-the-top sentiment). “Goodnight” is the opposite, an album-ender that challenges a traditional lullaby but remains heartfelt.
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Nov 4, 2024Their inventive spirit and unconventional approach carve out unusual paths that, once traveled, become a delight to revisit.
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Oct 3, 2024Even setting sequencing, production, and stylistic reference points aside, EELS is simply chock-full of great songs.
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Oct 3, 2024They belong to a long lineage of subversive pop-rock wizards who are not only capable of writing great songs, but also willing to then keep pushing those songs into interesting, unexpected places. On EELS, they remain delightfully, defiantly unpredictable.
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Oct 3, 2024EELS is relentless, hooky, and thematically looser than the band’s full-length debut, 2023’s When Horses Would Run, which reveled in the mythos of the American West. This is music of fine details and huge sentiments.
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Nov 12, 2024Filled with frisky self-confidence, Falcon Bitch and Shmoofy—note the absurd names—bolt through sixteen terse, inventive tracks as they dryly switch and harmonize vocals.
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Oct 17, 2024Messy, expansive, full of contradictions, sharp turns, and a joie de vivre that wants to experience and express everything at once. They are also endlessly inventive and engaging, their effortless melding of styles held together by glorious harmony and complete assurance.
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Oct 16, 2024As a whole, EELS may not reach the energetic frenzy of last year’s When Horses Would Run, but it more than makes up for it in the sheer breadth of shade and color Being Dead infuses into its 44-minute runtime.
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Oct 3, 2024The collection is inventive yet grounded and unpretentious, a genuinely modern interpretation on the tenets of punk that still carry weight.
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