Explorer 29 for August 30th

List has expanded to 29. Hopefully I'll make another one on September 10.


01 05 03 Darren Hanlon - All These Things
02 09 03 Hungry Kids of Hungary - Wristwatch
03 -- 01 Interpol - Barricade
04 02 03 The New Pornographers - Crash Years
05 01 04 Vampire Weekend - Holiday
06 12 02 Devo - Fresh
07 -- 01 Blood Red Shoes - Heartsink
08 03 03 Archie Bronson Outfit - Hoola
09 19 02 Ash Grunwald - Walking
10 -- 01 Cee-Lo Green - No One's Gonna Love You
11 27 02 Kula Shaker - Peter Pan R.I.P.
12 25 02 The Divine Comedy - I Like
13 22 02 DeWolff - Don't You Go Up To The Sky
14 07 04 Local Natives - World News
15 -- 01 Frank Turner - Try This At Home
16 04 05 The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
17 08 04 The Drums - Forever And Ever Amen
18 24 02 Radical Face - Welcome Home
19 -- 01 eels - Spectacular Girl
20 17 03 Lola Kite - Different Story
21 -- 01 The Sore Losers - Beyond Repair
22 -- 01 School of Seven Bells - Windstorm
23 -- 01 Tegan & Sara - Northshore
24 17 02 Kylfa - Moon Boogie
25 11 03 She & Him - Thieves
26 -- 01 Magic Numbers - The Pulse
27 10 03 The Lodger - Have A Little Faith In People
28 23 02 The Charlatans - Love Is Ending
29 -- 01 of Montreal - Coquet Coquette

eels - End Times

Eels – End Times

“Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss.” (Nick Hornby – High Fidelity).

Mark Everett wasn’t the most cheerful guy to begin with. Deaths of parents and siblings leave a mark and his music with the eels has always had a sad undertone. And don’t expect anything new on ‘End Times’. Let’s face it, even the title is depressing. The theme of the album is a divorce and the ensuing depression. Recorded mostly at home on a simple four-track the songs are simple and vintage E. Mostly just him strumming some chords on a guitar or playing them on a keyboard.
Starting in heaven he slowly spirals down into the phases that are part of breaking up, including locking yourself up in your house without much outside interaction ( the beautiful Mansion of Loz Feliz). They are emotions that we have all gone through, at one point he explains seeing a million trees at the side of the road and feeling just like one of them, but still feeling lonely. At least he has his Little Bird to talk to and we have the eels we can listen to, to let us know that even though we feel awful at times, there are millions more that feel the same.