EELS DEBUT NEW SONG “GOLDY” HERE

NEW STUDIO ALBUM EELS TIME! DUE JUNE 7 VIA
E WORKS/PLAY IT AGAIN SAM

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER HERE

March 26, 2024—Critically acclaimed rock group EELS are debuting the track “Goldy” from their upcoming 15th studio album, EELS TIME!, which is set for release June 7 via E Works/Play It Again Sam. Listen to/share the new track HERE, and pre-order/pre-save the album HERE.

Imagining his dear dog Bundy as a goldfish, EELS frontperson and singer/songwriter E (aka Mark Oliver Everett) sings in the chorus, “It’s kind of funny how the only one I need in the world / Is a goldfish swimming in a bowl.” E shares: “Sometimes the answers to all of your problems are right there in the fishbowl on your table.”

“Goldy” was written in collaboration with actor and All American Rejects frontman Tyson Ritter after E was invited to work with him on a song for the movie Prisoner’s Daughter. When the pair spoke, they learned they were neighbors and had previously shared a record label —DreamWorks—but hadn’t yet crossed paths. The soundtrack collaboration led to E appearing in the film, playing the boss of Kate Beckinsale’s character at a restaurant and being assaulted by her ex-husband (played by Ritter). Says E: “I was so method I cracked a rib!” Watch the scene here.

E went on to write five more songs with Ritter, which ended up on new album EELS TIME!. Speaking about Ritter, E says: “He’s turned out to be one of my favorite, weird, eccentric and imaginative collaborators. And he was right there down the hall from me at the DreamWorks Records office all those years ago. Who knew?”

EELS also recently debuted the Gus Black-directed video for first album track “Time,” depicting the passage of time and circle of life through a series of intimate images of three generations of Everetts: E’s father, parallel universe theory author Hugh Everett III, E and E’s son, Archie. “We’ve tried to get three people’s entire lives into a two minute and ten second video,” notes E. “I like a good challenge.” Watch/share the video HERE.

Recorded between Los Feliz, California and Dublin, Ireland, the new album EELS TIME! consists of twelve brand new tracks with collaborators such as Koool G Murder, The Chet, Tyson Ritter, Sean Coleman and more. The album follows a busy 2023 for EELS, in which they finally hit the road for their long-awaited Lockdown Hurricane tour of Europe and North America and brought the year to a close by releasing their second Best Of compilation album, EELS So Good: Essential EELS, Vol.2, as well as sharing a brand new holiday track, “Christmas, Why You Gotta Do Me Like This.”

EELS have had one of the most consistently acclaimed careers in music. The ever-changing project of principal singer/songwriter E (Mark Oliver Everett), EELS have released 13 studio albums since their 1996 debut, Beautiful Freak. In 2008, E published his highly acclaimed book Things the Grandchildren Should Know and starred in the award-winning Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives documentary about the search to understand his quantum physicist father, Hugh Everett III.

For more information, please contact Krista Williams, Joe Cohen or Carla Sacks at Sacks & Co., 212.741.1000.

EELS Time! Tracklist:
1. Time
2. We Won’t See Her Like Again
3. Goldy
4. Sweet Smile
5. Haunted Hero
6. If I’m Gonna Go Anywhere
7. And You Run
8. Lay With The Lambs
9. Song For You Know Who
10. I Can’t Believe It’s True
11. On The Bridge
12. Let’s Be Lucky

EELS DISCOGRAPHY

Studio albums:
BEAUTIFUL FREAK (1996)
ELECTRO-SHOCK BLUES (1998)
DAISIES OF THE GALAXY (200)
SOULJACKER (2001)
SHOOTENANNY! (2003)
BLINKING LIGHTS AND OTHER REVELATIONS (2005)
HOMBRE LOBO (2009)
END TIMES (2010)
TOMORROW MORNING (2010)
WONDERFUL, GLORIOUS (2013)
THE CAUTIONARY TALES OF MARK OLIVER EVERETT (2014)
THE DECONSTRUCTION (2018)
EARTH TO DORA (2020)
EXTREME WITCHCRAFT (2022)
EELS TIME! (2024)

Live albums:
ELECTRO-SHOCK BLUES SHOW (1998)
OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING (2000)
SIXTEEN TONS (TEN SONGS) (2003)
EELS with strings LIVE AT TOWN HALL (2005)
LIVE AND IN PERSON! (2006)
TREMENDOUS DYNAMITE (2010/2011)
ROYAL ALBERT HALL (2014)
LIVE AT LARGO (2019)
GENTLE SOULS: 2021 KCRW SESSION (2021)

Collections:
MEET THE EELS: ESSENTIAL EELS Vol. 1 1996-2006
USELESS TRINKETS: RARITIES & UNRELEASED
EELS SO GOOD: ESSENTIAL EELS Vol. 2 2007-2020

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