
Blinking Lights and Other Revelations is a life's work for Mark Everett. It is an extraordinary collection of thirty three songs inspired by a much-publicised troubled family, a tortured soul and a furtive mind. But even with the 2008 'best of' collection (tagging on 'volume I' is a neat trick), Everett's autobiography and film about his father's life, there is more to come from Eels. Getting into character for the sequel to Souljacker, Hombre Lobo is the first of two albums in six months, as Everett throws aside the projects that drew him away from the daytime job of making [...]