Eels’ E on having open coronary heart surgical procedure throughout the making of their new album

Eels returned this week with a model new file Eels Time!, which got here out yesterday (June 7). It’s the fifteenth file by the Los Angeles indie-rock eccentrics, led by songwriting dynamo Mark Oliver Everett (aka E) and one which explores the same old Eels themes – life, existentialism, dying, love, goldfish – with all their customary it-is-what-it-isness. However on account of a serious well being scare, Eels Time! hits a bit of tougher – Everett underwent open-heart surgical procedure throughout the album’s creation and lately he informed the music Substack publication The New Cue all about it.

“It’s simply open-heart surgical procedure that’s all, no large deal,” stated Everett, considerably sardonically. “They stopped my coronary heart on the desk and minimize by my bones and my muscle tissue and by chance all of it labored, I’m good as new, I really feel nice.”