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Earth To Dora
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 12 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the 13th full-length studio release for the indie rock band led by E, who also produced the album.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Glide Magazine
    Dec 16, 2020
    80
    Earth To Dora is very much a turn up the volume, open the windows and let everyone enjoy it type of record.
  2. American Songwriter
    Oct 30, 2020
    80
    With Earth to Dora, Everett adds another emotionally edgy chapter to his artistic and spiritual journey that existing fans will appreciate, even if he still does need Novocaine for the soul.
  3. Classic Rock Magazine
    Nov 18, 2020
    80
    The melodies are sweet and the lyrics still bear his adult-child cartoon whimsy, but there's a dark optimism beneath it all. [Dec 2020, p.81]
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  4. Clash Music
    Oct 30, 2020
    70
    For all of E’s melancholy brooding, ‘Earth to Dora’ still has a tender and vintage vibe. Although E seems to have adopted the role of a hapless romantic that is unlucky in love, this record is still strangely upbeat.
  5. musicOMH.com
    Nov 9, 2020
    70
    Earth To Dora finds him in a relatively peaceful place – and it will have a similarly calming effect on Eels fans too. More than 20 years on, this band are still very good at what they do.
  6. AllMusic
    Oct 30, 2020
    70
    Earth to Dora is well-written and imaginatively produced pop for grown-ups that reminds us Mark Oliver Everett is crazy enough to try anything once -- even feeling OK for a while.
  7. DIY Magazine
    Oct 29, 2020
    40
    ‘Are You Fucking Your Ex’ has none of the melodrama its title suggests, the question holding about as much weight as ‘did I leave the bathroom light on?’, and ‘I Got Hurt’ sledgehammers the line “I got hurt… and it didn’t feel good”. For a songwriter who’s so loved for finding poetry in the quotidian, for saying so much with so little, it’s just a bit basic. Maybe if he’d allowed him - and us - to wallow a bit, he’d have had more of a point.

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  1. acey_nl
    Nov 10, 2020
    10
    It's back to the roots for Mark Oliver Everett, known by the stage name E. This album has an authentic Eels vibe to it like Daisies of theIt's back to the roots for Mark Oliver Everett, known by the stage name E. This album has an authentic Eels vibe to it like Daisies of the Galaxy and Blinking lights and other revelations. In other words it sounds like Eels in it's heyday. This is the album I was waiting for for a few of years now absolutely amazing!… Expand
  2. Ricko
    Jan 6, 2021
    8
    "Earth to Dora" has that classic Eels sound, the sweet, dreamy almost sleepy pop but with the indie edge lurking just under the surface. It"Earth to Dora" has that classic Eels sound, the sweet, dreamy almost sleepy pop but with the indie edge lurking just under the surface. It has been over a decade since their last truly great record 2009's "Hombre Lobo" but as always there is more good than bad on every Eels album. This album doesn't add much to the Eels legacy but it has their comforting sound that I could listen to repeatedly in spades.… Expand

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