Daisies Of The Galaxy

I recognised the languid vibes and gravelly voice, but could place it till the last track (which is an excellent way to end an album)

Rating: 6/10 Best songs: Flyswatter

Why this over Electro-Shock Blues?

Indie music crossing over with Beck and guitar driven rock.

Just can’t get into these guys. I’ve tried but something is off.

It's relatively different from the album on the list by Eels, but it still isn't really my thing, although it does get better as it goes on.

I did kind of think this was cutesy folky vibe. Nothing absolutely incredible about it.

I find myself being distracted by everything while listening to this. It's not that it's just mellow - half of my likes/loves are as chill in some ways as this - but here it's done in a way that never ever grabs my attention. And closely approaches *almost* slacker-90s-IDGAF in the way I truly hate but there's (almost) enough earnestness that that doesn't completely fit... I recall not loving "Beautiful Freak" primarily due to the vocals. Here he sounds like Kurt Cobain trying to be Beck. Or vice versa. But all along he's being so careful to give that GenX *I'm not trying that hard* which is the part that grates on me. It doesn't work at all and I suspect that's a lot of my negative or just...nothing...reaction to it. But also even without paying attention to the lyrics there's something about them that's cloying. Annoying in a simplistic way; it might be the meter - i.e. the obvious rhyme that you see coming every time. It's a bit colour by numbers for me and I think Eels just isn't my particular spirit animal at all. 4/10 2 stars. IMO: Belonged in the book? No.

Too jangly.

We had another Eels album on the main list, I do remember that. Little girl with freaky eyes. Gun to my head I couldn't tell you the difference with this one. It's more of the same, again, we're doing the indie rock thing. I feel like I should be nicer to these albums that were picked by fellow travelers but come on guys, is this really "must listen before you die?" Does the album you picked really add anything to the conversation? Favorite tracks: Grace Kelly Blues, Mr. E's Beautiful Blues. Album art: I do like this, it's that old school '50s aesthetic art style. "Dick and Jane" stuff. Very cute, good color scheme. 2.5/5

This was an alright album. I’d say better than the last eels album but a lot of the songs on this didn’t stick out in any memorable way. It was a well produced album with good instruments it just fell a little short of me capturing the essence of what other people find great it in. Overall it’s fine but I wouldn’t revisit it. 5.8/10

Ok

It’s better than the one in the main list, but that’s about the only nice thing I can say about it

I can't believe I'm locked in here in this challenge with yall.