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| | Eels: Official Band Website |
 | | That album dealt with the nearly simultaneous suicide of Everett's sister and terminal illness of his mother, from the subjects' points of view. |
 | | This album finds him a few years down the line, now battling some of the family demons himself, with the after effects of past tragedies becoming more of a personal issue in his adult life, sometimes fearlessly autobiographical, and other times built around the related stories of others. |
 | | The last eels album, 2003's SHOOTENANNY!, nominated by judges Tom Waits and Cameron Crowe for the 2003 Short List Music Prize, was essentially the document of a live four piece rock band in the studio, recorded in ten days, as a kind of working vacation from the long and arduous process of making BLINKING LIGHTS. |
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