Comments on: new arrivals: elvis costello, eels

By: beergal

beergal — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:10:47 +0000

I can’t stop playing the new Elvis… it’ll be very much a soundtrack of the summer (perfect lying in the hammock sippin’ on a beer music…) While he’s got a great catalogue, I haven’t loved anything he’s done this much since My Aim is True. Or maybe I’m just getting old…

By: John

John — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:36:27 +0000

These new albums, respectively (Eels and Costello), suck. When will Veckatimest be on emusic? I’d really like to know.

By: SaraDevil

SaraDevil — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:50:19 +0000

I've been digging hard on Vampire Hands From Chicago and very interesting Knife Prrty

By: James D Wilson

James D Wilson — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:50:58 +0000

I would love to be able to download Elvis Costello’s latest rather than have to get an illegal copy from a bit torrent site, but emusic.com will not accept my payment and after six weeks of ongoing discussions with customer support and their inability to take my payment, it looks like I’ll have to go the bit torrent mode to obtain this album. It seems ashamed that technical issues such as mine lead people away from legitimate sites like emusic.com, but I really have to wonder about the wisdom of keeping associated with a company that can not take a customer’s money. Sorry for the rant, but I’ve just gotten done with another thread with customer support and needed a forum to vent.

By: JonathanL

JonathanL — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:52:16 +0000

A few more listens into Hombre Lobo and I find it’s definitely the kind of “between” album that Mark Oliver Everett seems to make when he’s just made a statement. Like Daisies of the Galaxy and Shootenanny! it’s Eels through and through, but you don’t have to be a big fan of the style to get something from it. Lots growing on me, really enjoying his rough blues-rock return after its absence. Thanks to the eMusic interview I know it’s true, but it defintiely feels like an album about the Dog-Faced Boy, with some Souljacker dirty riffs and some Shootenanny! sentiment, with some of that kind-of-creepy blunt force trauma honesty us Eels fans like.

I don’t have other DL’s to spare this month yet, though. I do belive The Most Serene Republic is coming back around next week, and after Population, I’m absolutely giddy with excitement.

Will still check out Deastro, because the bleeding was what kept me from picking his last one up.

By: joe

joe — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:01:29 +0000

Andy: I actually mentioned that to him after a bit, that a lot of people think the vocalist from Girls sounds like him. Elvis said he couldn’t hear the similarity at all (I think he was lying!) so I dropped it from the piece. But sitting next to him the minute the vocals kicked in on the song was by far one of the more surreal experiences of my life.

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:02:49 +0000

“I don’t want these albums to get overlooked.”

Sorry, with my downloads halved I’ll be downloading new releases from bands I know, not taking chances on albums like these.

By: ilya

ilya — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:04:26 +0000

Is it too late? Is anyone still reading this post? There's a new John Wesley Harding album.

By: Andy S. (aka Drooch)

Andy S. (aka Drooch) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:06:16 +0000

Just read the Keys interview with EC. Funny that Keys chose to play for Costello a song by Girls that features a Costello soundalike vocalist, but Elvis thought he sounded like Jarvis Cocker!

By: DJ Adequate

DJ Adequate — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:26:28 +0000

Eels and Costello are united, in my mind, by the fact that even their worst albums have songs in them that are flat-out great.