THE DECONSTRUCTION
| EELS
THE DECONSTRUCTION
The Deconstruction is the twelfth studio album by American rock band Eels, released on April 6, 2018. The band's twelfth studio release follows a four-year period where front man E took a hiatus from music. The album has garnered favorable reviews. - WIKIPEDIA
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Pitchfork
produces no eccentricity, pop smarts, orchestral creativity, or emotional revelation.
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DROWNED IN SOUND
Whilst it’s not the most accessible or immediate of their many studio albums, it boasts an intriguingly open humanity that’s hard to ignore.
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musicOHM
The Deconstruction, Eels’ first album in four years, is arguably the LA band’s best in two decades
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American Songwriter
it’s not always an easy listen but anything worthwhile generally isn’t.
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INDEPENDENT
Guilt, sickness, depression and death have their haunting power acknowledged. The optimism of a songwriter who sees the world’s love and beauty through his own sometimes deep pain rarely falters.
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The Skinny
Great moments in great songs ('I love you, there, I said it') still seem to be deep enough waters for EELS to swim.
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Los Angeles Times
It seems ridiculous to describe the new Eels work as "a headphone record," because, in the era of earbuds, most are. Yet here we are, lost in the intricate melodies, arrangements and textures swirling through The Deconstruction.
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Record Collector
A very welcome return.
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AV/MUSIC
Mark Oliver Everett’s latest effort as Eels, proves he hasn’t lost his touch for melancholic pop.
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CLASH
It feels like a career-straddling greatest hits collection in which all the ‘hits’ are brand new.
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ALL MUSIC
if you've ever been partial to Mark Everett's slightly skewed but engagingly literate outlook on the world, then The Deconstruction should meet with your approval.
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The 405
Standout tracks, melancholic interludes and stylistic jumpiness add elements of unpredictability to Everett and co. that they’ve sorely missed. But these same things also make it an overarching mess.
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exclaim!
The Deconstruction is a rather rote and lackluster return.
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Under the Radar
gets off to an energetic start with tracks that rock and inspire, ultimately there's too many tracks that don't rock, so it falls a bit short of what Eels are capable of.
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SLANT
The Deconstruction reduces the complex spectrum of human emotions to mere binaries.
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The Irish Times
The Deconstruction is as well-worn as the dead grass on a makeshift path.
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Soundblab
The Deconstruction is not the Eels album I wanted after four years of silence from E, but it’s the one that he wanted or perhaps needed to make in the current climate.
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LOUDER THAN WAR
triumph of an album of immense beauty and tender heart-on-sleeve song-writing revealing his usual mix of melancholia, gritty realism, dark humour and hope for the future unearthing all sides of the psyche.
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glide magazine
The Deconstruction is a surprisingly coherent collection.
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sputnik music
Overall, the album is a roller coaster with a very strong opening, a middling mid-section (“Today is the Day” helps to offset this area), a buildup to a strong end.
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MUSIC CONNECTION
Like a crème brulee for the ears, this recipe delivers a luscious treat best consumed in sensible, discrete bites.
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earbuddy
Eels' latest album, The Deconstruction, is bone dry with new ideas.
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popMATTERS
The Deconstruction isn't a bad album. You'll play it in the car and time and miles will pass, but you won't remember what you heard.
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RTE
Compassion is the watchword and there’s plenty of love and laughs among the ruins.
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SPILL MAGAZINE
The album, while boasting several standouts, is mostly a placid hodgepodge of winding ballads and even-tempoed songs. Though not hugely fresh or exciting, it is still thoroughly enjoyable.
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richersounds
They’re on such great form here that I hope that either they don’t take four more to return, or if they do then that record is as considered and finely crafted as this one, a truly latter day classic Eels album.
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xsnoize
With a strong sense of optimism, twenty-odd years down the line, E still has the ability to turn his own personal agonies into sumptuous, shimmering creativity.
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spectrum culture
The Deconstruction coheres around its quieter moments, its chamber dramas.
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the arts desk
The Deconstruction perhaps won't be quite as inspiring as Eels might have hoped.
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THE FIRE NOTE
The Deconstruction will find an appreciative audience among those committed Eels fans who have traveled these roads before, but there’s not a lot going on here to attract in new listeners.
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arena
it is a honest ode to the power of self-reflection.
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vocals on top
Overall E doesn’t really make bad records and this one definitely isn’t bad either.
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Northern Transmissions
For EELS, upping their unusual production, cinematic tendencies and a unique arrangement of orchestras makes for a powerful sound. Though their writing doesn’t always hit the same highs, it still manages surprise you more often than not.
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Reflections of Darkness
It feels like the record absorbed this unstable atmosphere and the spirit of constant changing.
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hotpress
Everett remains an artist who delights the ears while tugging at the heart-strings.
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SOUNDS & BOOKS(translated)
No answers to the world situation, but a lot of comfort with new Eels songs.
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NARC.
The end result feels like a consummate Eels album, not to mention a perfect jumping on point and a worthy edition to a special, deeply personal, oeuvre.
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the wee REVIEW
Eels’ 12th exhibits playful moments amongst the usual darkness.
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QRO
is a bit of a grab bag, but Everett has always displayed multiple styles as Eels, and here has a theme running through it all.
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CRYPTIC ROCK
Mark Oliver Everett and his band EELS are ready to destroy your boredom as well as low expectation of today’s music and reconstruct your sense of awe and belief that there is simply great music to be had from any given time.
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mxdwn.com
plays like a proud return to the professional music ecosystem for Mr. E. Full of sharp turns, 180s, layered instrumentation and powerful lyrics,
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The Times
The Deconstruction is as melodically generous and lyrically sharp as the man’s best work.
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The Irish Times
Fans of the soothing vocals of singer-songwriter Mark Oliver Everett, who formed the band back in 1995, won't be disappointed with this eclectic mix of songs.
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ALT ROCK PEOPLE
This is E. at his most vulnerable, reflective and accessible. He’s always had a flair for the melancholy, but there's also his aura of childlike hope.
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echoes and dust
Overall it’s a solid record from a band who have carved out a distinctive space in dealing with harsh and difficult subject matter with bright and quirky aplomb.
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Secret Meeting
Images of compassion and kindness are the heart of this record.
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musikexpress(translated)
Now the big world is as bizarre-dramatic as his little life. And if anyone can tell how to keep their heads up, then Everett.
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scred exile
At its core, however, The Deconstruction contains what pop art never did, a soul.
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intro(translated)
Mark Oliver Everett continues roughly where he left off four years ago, and presents another building block to his great indie rock design with a high entertainment factor for nerds and others.
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