{"id":8948,"date":"2013-02-06T17:08:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T00:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=8948"},"modified":"2013-02-06T17:08:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T00:08:36","slug":"eels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/02\/eels\/","title":{"rendered":"EELS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"EELS<\/strong><\/h1>\n

No plan is no problem for E and his band of indie rockers\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Heading into the studio without a single song written could easily lead to chaos, but on the latest Eels album, Wonderful, Glorious<\/em>, the casual approach was key to \u00a0bringing the band together.<\/p>\n

\u201cNormally I have a concept or musical idea of what I want a record to sound like, but I went in with none of that,\u201d says frontman Mark Everett (better known as \u201cE\u201d). Instead, E took an \u201canything goes\u201d approach to the album\u2014which he produced\u2014and opened himself to ideas from the band that he might not have always been receptive to. \u201cPart of how I produce is to make sure everybody in the room knows they can suggest anything at any time and I\u2019ll listen to it, and often try it,\u201d he says. \u201cIn the past, if someone suggested an idea that sounded like a bad idea to me, I wouldn\u2019t even try it. A lot of times I was proven wrong. That was a good lesson for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team approach allows Wonderful, Glorious<\/em> to simultaneously be more varied and more cohesive than Eels\u2019 last few albums. \u201cI think everything but the kitchen sink is on there. It\u2019s sort of all over the place,\u201d says E. \u201cIt is more of a band-oriented record than the last couple were.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everett formed Eels in 1995, and it\u2019s widely known as his project with a rotating cast for a backing band. The current lineup of the Chet, Knuckles, Koool G Murder and P-Boo are familiar to fans, however, as they have now been through two world tours with Eels. \u201cI don\u2019t feel the need to mix it up, because we\u2019re pretty busy mixing it up with each other,\u201d says E. \u201cI think a lot of bands that are married to the same members are kind of making the same record over and over, because they\u2019re limited by their collective imagination. The Beatles are always the rare exception to that rule, because they were just the right combination of four guys with really huge imaginations. In this case I feel like I found that situation for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Wonderful, Glorious<\/em> sounds more cohesive in its arrangements, E\u2019s struggles with the project are apparent in his lyrics. \u201cI wasn\u2019t aware what the conflict was that I was writing about at the time, but I look back now and see there are a lot of songs about fighting your way out of a corner,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was simply because we went into the making of this album with no plan, and that was a little scary for me. I think that was coming out unconsciously in the lyrics, that I was a little worried about, \u2018Have I pinned myself into a corner here, and how do I get out of it?\u2019 I feel like I did.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u2013AF<\/p>\n

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EELS No plan is no problem for E and his band of indie rockers\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Heading into the studio without a single song written could easily lead to chaos, but on the latest Eels album, Wonderful, Glorious, the casual approach was key to \u00a0bringing the band together. \u201cNormally I have a concept or musical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[6013,6012,5885,6014,6015,6016],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8950,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948\/revisions\/8950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}