Eels Share An Almost Optimistic View On “Premonition”

E aka Mark Oliver Everett has an almost optimistic “Premonition” that he would like to share with listeners today. “Premonition” is a sparse, acoustic number that often feels at odds with the lyrics that E espouses. I know that’s the point but in the context that I’m working with, I may get this song more so than a casual fan. That’s all speculation, so call it what you will. “Premonition” is the first release from E’s upcoming album, The Deconstruction, which is out April 6th via PIAS.

To celebrate the release of The Deconstruction, EELS will tour worldwide this summer, with a North American headline run kicking off May 28 in Pomona, CA and further shows in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, New York, D.C. and more. See below for full tour details, and purchase tickets HERE.
The album was performed by E and longtime collaborators Koool G Murder and P-Boo, alongside The Deconstruction Orchestra and Choir, and produced by E, with some songs produced with Mickey Petralia for the first time since 1998’s Electro-Shock Blues.

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 eleven 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. EELS released their critically acclaimed The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett in 2014, and 2015 saw the release of the band’s extraordinary seventh live album Live at Royal Albert Hall, recorded at the storied London venue and accompanied by a concert film. In the same year, the band’s “Fresh Blood” served as the theme song to HBO’s “The Jinx” and in 2016, 2017 and 2018 E appeared in Judd Apatow’s Netflix original series “Love.”

EELS—THE DECONSTRUCTION
1. The Deconstruction
2. Bone Dry
3. The Quandary
4. Premonition
5. Rusty Pipes
6. The Epiphany
7. Today is the Day
8. Sweet Scorched Earth
9. Coming Back
10. Be Hurt
11. You Are The Shining Light
12. There I Said It
13. Archie Goodnight
14. The Unanswerable
15. In Our Cathedral

EELS TOUR DATES

May 28—Pomona, CA—The Glass House*
May 30—Los Angeles, CA—Fonda Theatre
May 31—San Francisco, CA—The Fillmore
June 1—Portland, OR—Crystal Ballroom
June 2—Seattle, WA—The Showbox
June 5—Minneapolis, MN—First Avenue
June 6—Chicago, IL—Thalia Hall
June 8—Boston, MA—House of Blues
June 9—Brooklyn, NY—Brooklyn Steel
June 10—Philadelphia, PA—Union Transfer
June 11—Washington, DC—Lincoln Theatre
June 17—Mannheim, Germany—Maifeld Derby Festival
June 18,19—Utrecht, Netherlands—Tivoli Vredenburg
June 21—Amsterdam, Netherlands—Paradiso
June 23—Cesena, Italy—Acieloaperto – Rocca Malatestiana
June 25—Munich, Germany—TonHalle
June 26—Cologne, Germany—E-Werk
June 28—Berlin, Germany—Tempodrom
June 29—Hamburg, Germany—Mehr! Theater
June 30—Luxembourg, Luxembourg—Siren’s Call
July 2—London, UK—O2 Academy Brixton
July 3—Manchester, UK—Manchester Academy
July 4—Glasgow, UK—O2 Academy
July 6—Dublin, Ireland—Iveagh Gardens
July 8—Werchter, Belgium—Rock Werchter
July 9—Paris, France—Olympia
July 11—Barcelona, Spain—BARTS
July 12— Madrid, Spain—Mad Cool Festival
July 13—Lisbon, Portugal—NOS Alive Festival
July 16—Feldkirch, Austria—Poolbar Festival
July 17—Vienna, Austria—Arena
July 20—Lucerne, Switzerland—KKL Blue Balls Festival
* warm up show