New EELS THE DECONSTRUCTION Out Today + Additional Tour Dates
By: Macon Prickett Apr. 06, 2018
Watch/share the official video for EELS' song "Bone Dry" off of their new album The Deconstruction, out today on E Works/[PIAS]. The stop-motion video was produced by Starburns Industries' Duke Johnson and Dino Stamatopoulos, the team behind Charlie Kaufman's Anomalisa, and directed by Sofia Astrom, who noted, "E really liked Duke Johnson's idea of dancing skeletons for "Bone Dry." My co-producer and art director Tony Candelaria and I knew that we needed the best skeleton animator in the world, so we brought in Anthony Scotts (Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride) to help us make E's skeletons come to life."
The new album continues to garner widespread critical praise including
Wednesday's in-depth interview with Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air. Stereogum calls the title track "a genuinely gorgeous piece of music," while Q Magazine declares the album "a captivating return from one of indie rock's most consistent songwriters," giving the album 4 stars. Likewise MOJO proclaims it "Gorgeous... another EELS album to treasure" in its 4 star review.To celebrate the release of The Deconstruction,EELS will tour worldwide this summer, with a North American headline run kicking offMay 28 in Pomona, CA and further shows in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, New York, D.C. and more. See below for full tour detais.
The album was performed by E and longtime collaborators Koool G Murder and P-Boo, alongside The Deconstruction Orchestra and Choir, and produced by E with some songs produced with Mickey Petralia for the first time since 1998's Electro-Shock Blues.
EELS have had one of the most consistently acclaimed careers in music. The ever-changing projects of principal singer/songwriter E (Mark Oliver Everett), EELS have released 11studio albums since their 1996 debut, Beautiful Freak. In 2008, E published his highly acclaimed book Things the Grandchildren Should Know and starred in the award-winningParallel Worlds, Parallel Lives documentary about the search to understand his quantum physicist father, Hugh Everett III. EELS released their critically acclaimed The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett in 2014, and 2015 saw the release of the band's extraordinary seventh live album Live at Royal Albert Hall, recorded at the storied London venue and accompanied by a concert film. In the same year, the band's "Fresh Blood" served as the theme song to HBO's "The Jinx" and from 2016 to 2018 E appeared in Judd Apatow's Netflix original series "Love."
EELS TOUR DATES
May 28-Pomona, CA-The Glass House*
May 30-Los Angeles, CA-Fonda Theatre
May 31-San Francisco, CA-The Fillmore
June 1-Portland, OR-Crystal Ballroom
June 2-Seattle, WA-The Showbox
June 5-Minneapolis, MN-First Avenue
June 6-Chicago, IL-Thalia Hall
June 8-Boston, MA-House of Blues
June 9-Brooklyn, NY-Brooklyn Steel
June 10-Philadelphia, PA-Union Transfer
June 11-Washington, DC-Lincoln Theatre
June 17-Mannheim, Germany-Maifeld Derby Festival
June 18,19-Utrecht, Netherlands-Tivoli Vredenburg
June 21-Amsterdam, Netherlands-Paradiso
June 23-Cesena, Italy-Acieloaperto - Rocca Malatestiana
June 25-Munich, Germany-TonHalle
June 26-Cologne, Germany-E-Werk
June 28-Berlin, Germany-Tempodrom
June 29-Hamburg, Germany-Mehr! Theater
June 30-Luxembourg, Luxembourg-Siren's Call
July 2-London, UK-O2 Academy Brixton
July 3-Manchester, UK-Manchester Academy
July 4-Glasgow, UK-O2 Academy
July 6-Dublin, Ireland-Iveagh Gardens
July 8-Werchter, Belgium-Rock Werchter
July 9-Paris, France-Olympia
July 11-Barcelona, Spain-BARTS
July 12- Madrid, Spain-Mad Cool Festival
July 13-Lisbon, Portugal-NOS Alive Festival
July 16-Feldkirch, Austria-Poolbar Festival
July 17-Vienna, Austria-Arena
July 20-Lucerne, Switzerland-KKL Blue Balls Festival
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