End Times (album)

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End Times
Eels - End Times.jpg
Studio album by
Eels
ReleasedJanuary 19, 2010 (2010-01-19)
RecordedDecember 2008 – August 2009
StudioOneHitsville, U.S.A.; Los Feliz, California, United States
Genre Indie rock
Length39:56
Label Vagrant, E Works
Producer Mark Oliver Everett
Eels chronology
Hombre Lobo
(2009)		End Times
(2010)		 Tomorrow Morning
(2010)
Singles from End Times
  1. "A Line in the Dirt"
    Released: January 13, 2010

End Times is the eighth studio album by American rock band Eels released on January 19, 2010. [1] End Times is the second in a trilogy of concept albums starting with 2009's Hombre Lobo and finishing with Tomorrow Morning , released later in 2010.

Contents

Content

The album was self-produced by frontman Mark Oliver Everett and focuses on themes of divorce and aging. [2] The cover was designed by Adrian Tomine.

Release

End Times was released on January 19, 2010. The album was also released in a deluxe edition with a bonus EP.

The music video for "Little Bird" was released on YouTube through the official Eels channel in November 2009 and "In My Younger Days" in December 2009. The single for "A Line in the Dirt" backed with "Little Bird" was released through Eels' online store on January 13, 2010.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Drowned in Sound Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
NME 8/10 [6]
Pitchfork 3.9/10 [7]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Spin Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [10]

Critical response to the album has been mostly positive. Will Dean of The Guardian called it "a classic break-up album". [5]

Pitchfork published a negative review of the album, calling it "by all accounts a break-up album, but one that's plodding, boring, and full of icky self-pity [...] Eventually, Everett's disassociation with himself results in a disassociation with the music, as each painfully plain entry becomes simply exhaustively dull." [7]

Track listing

All songs written by E.

  1. "The Beginning" – 2:16
  2. "Gone Man" – 2:59
  3. "In My Younger Days" – 3:25
  4. "Mansions of Los Feliz" – 2:49
  5. "A Line in the Dirt" – 3:30
  6. "End Times" – 2:58
  7. "Apple Trees" – 0:40
  8. "Paradise Blues" – 3:03
  9. "Nowadays" – 3:09
  10. "Unhinged" – 2:26
  11. "High and Lonesome" – 1:07
  12. "I Need a Mother" – 2:39
  13. "Little Bird" – 2:34
  14. "On My Feet" – 6:21

Deluxe edition bonus EP

  1. "And Now for the End Times" – 0:19
  2. "Some Friend" – 2:42
  3. "Walking Cloud" – 2:25
  4. "$200 Tattoo" – 2:02
  5. "The Man Who Didn't Know He'd Lost His Mind" – 2:36

The short spoken-word introduction is only available on the iTunes Store edition of the album. [11]

Personnel

Eels

Technical personnel

Charts

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