End Times - Eels
  • Band Name: Eels
  • Record Label: Vagrant
  • Release Date: Jan 19, 2010
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71 out of 100

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7.6 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 18 Ratings

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  • Summary: The latest release for Mark Oliver Everett is what he calls his "divorce album."

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 25
  3. Negative: 2 out of 25
  1. New Musical Express (NME)
    80
    You’ll find Eels’ most revealing, autobiographical work-to-date to be the most beautiful break-up record since Beck’s ‘Sea Change’.
  2. Under The Radar
    80
    This may not be Elels' best record, but it's damn close to it, and a uniquely idiosyncratic deposit in an increasingly diverse discography that's getting harder and harder to ignore. [Holiday 2009, p.76]
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  3. Rolling Stone
    60
    Everett keeps these ballads and rockers short, spare and pretty; his sad reportage is straightforward to the point of being guileless.
  4. Pitchfork
    39
    A foreboding chronicle of the unpleasantness to follow, the typical arc of a break-up tale never materializes as "The Beginning" promises.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. NikoB
    9
    I seriously love this album. It is his first that I could ever listen to the full album without skipping a song. Oh, and up yours Onion club.
  2. CodyT
    8
    A very heartfelt, personal record. Eels is a project that will never have the same commercial success as it did in the 90s, but the CRITICAL success should still be standing. Its a shame to see it isnt because End Times is a pretty damn good CD.… Collapse
  3. StevenM.
    7
    A very down to earth effort from Eels. The 90's alt rock band that once sounded, well, like a BAND, now sounds like one man (who is Mark Oliver Everett) in a studio spilling his guts out onto tape (which it is).… Expand
  4. Guy
    3
    Oh dear. How mediocre. There's no new ideas here. No new sound. No new sentiment. I've been on the Eels journey since Beautiful Freak, and loved many years of it. But E - you're right with the name of the album at least. This just sounds self indulgent and selfish. I feel like I'm just paying for your ongoing therapy. On this form, it may be time to grow up, move on and do something else. Honesty is the best policy. Sure you of all people would agree with that.… Expand

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