Eels

For a decade plus, Mark Oliver Everett, the auteur behind this raggedy power trio, has
been singing bay-at-the-moon stompers and ballads in a voice twisted by heartsickness into
something not quite human. Everett's songwriting hasn't always kept pace with his musical
and literary ambitions. But these tales of frustrated desire are vividly sketched, with the
Eels delivering muddy roadhouse rockers. The ballads really shine. In "Ordinary... More >