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returned this week with a brand new record , which came out yesterday (June 7). It’s the 15th record by the Los Angeles indie-rock eccentrics, led by songwriting dynamo Mark Oliver Everett (aka E) and one that explores the usual Eels themes – life, existentialism, death, love, goldfish – with all their customary it-is-what-it-isness. But on account of a major health scare, hits a little harder – Everett underwent open-heart surgery during the album’s creation and recently he told the music Substack publication all about it.

“It’s just open-heart surgery that’s all, no big deal,” said Everett, somewhat sardonically. “They stopped my heart on the table and cut through my bones and my muscles and luckily it all worked, I’m good as new, I feel great.” Everett said that he had no prior hospital experience and it was a long and slow recuperation period.



“I’ve never stayed in a hospital ever so this was being in a hospital for a week, a major ordeal,” he said. “It took about two months for me to recover, it was a long time cos it was such a traumatic thing on my body. Now, I’m totally fine.

It wasn’t that long ago either.” Despite the fact that the record was made before the operation, Everett knew that it was on the horizon and thinks it may have seeped into the writing, honing in on ’s reflective ditty and almost-title-track . “That may have been influenced by knowing something like that was coming up,” he said, revealing that the operat.

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