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The general theme and idea of the whole thing is one of renewal, of the light that glimmered as End Times closed out, manifesting itself in something brilliant; a man finally content. But this rebirth is one communicated mainly through platitudes, of which This Is Where It Gets Good epitomises. Sitting at the heart of the record, Everett hammers home the song title, surmising that “the spirits come together,” before the funk riff the song is built out of takes centre-stage for four excruciatingly aimless minutes.
Yet Everett is on the upswing here – as he acknowledges on the sweet Spectacular Girl, “Some things just happen ‘cause they have to be”. After the bleak vision presented us on End Times (where he sang frankly of divorce against a backdrop of madness and apocalypse-mongering), it is a relief to hear him at ease with himself and the world surrounding. Straight off the bat, Tomorrow Morning is a more playful, relaxed listen than its predecessor. Indeed, Everett views this record as the conclusion of a trilogy which began with Hombre Lobo before descending into the misery present on End Times.
It’s not serenity that’s the problem on Tomorrow Morning though – it just feels slack in execution; like a series of vaguely pretty sketches or half thought-through ideas. It’s a palate-cleanser for sure, and whatever lies next for Everett, you have to hope it’s a little more emphatic than what’s on offer here.
--James SkinnerFind more music at the BBC This link will take you off Amazon in a new window
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Well, E has had a much longer run than most with a string of 6 terrific albums from Beautiful Freak to Blinking Lights and Other Revelations (7 if you count "A man called E"). And these albums mostly came hot on the heels of each other, as if he could hardly record the stuff quickly enough, it was coming to him so quickly.
But now the ideas have slowed down, and the songs sound crafted instead of spontaneous, as if the creativity is running out, and he's trying to squeeze the most he possibly can from the limited ideas left. That's not to say that this is a bad album, it isn't: but it's a pale shadow of those 6 or 7 albums. And let's face it, the variety and scope of those recordings is far more than we had any right to expect.
I'll still buy his next release hoping for a miraculous return to form, but this is the third album after Hombre Lobo and End Times which don't quite cut it alongside his finest.
The tempo rises on a few of the songs such as 'Baby Loves Me', which sounds like it could really be on 'Hombre Lobo' and the gospel-esque 'Looking Up'. The album is full of other great numbers, with wonderful instrumentation and heartfelt lyrics, my favourites of which are 'Spectacular Girl', the instrumental 'After The Earthquake', 'That's Not Her Way'and 'I Like The Way This Is Going' and finishes with the life affirming 'Mystery of Life' leaving on the optimistic note, 'No more sorrow and no more strife, always daylight following the night, good morning mystery of life'.
Finally a happy Eels album, showing that Mark Everett is in a good place at this moment. If you liked 'Hombre Lobo' and 'End Times'then this is a must have album!
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