Album
Vermilion Sands

SouljackerEels

released: 2001-09-24
on label: DreamWorks
artist: Eels
with some: Indie Pop
listen at: Deezer Spotify

“mixes disparate signifiers — country guitars, hip-hop drums, classical strings — into artfully skewed tunes. This tribute to all-age alienation cranks up the noise, with PJ Harvey consort John Parish adding industrial swamp-blues flavor. But as per usual, the darkness is strangely joyous.” - Will Hermes, Entertainment Weekly

“a mercurial oddity, its mood hurtling from violent to tender, bleak to comical, sometimes settling on all four at once. The love ballads alone are a riot of confusion: Fresh Feeling is deliciously breezy, but World of Shit is morose and What is That Note? positively bristles. The collaboration between frontman E and producermulti-instrumentalist John Parish is an electrifying one; Dog Faced Boy and That’s Not Really Funny are visceral treats. Resonant and strange.” - Maddy Costa, The Guardian