Hints and tips:
...The melodies are strong and memorable. This being an Eels album, darkness is never far away, and Everett’s voice itself conveys a powerful sense of weariness....
...It will sound familiar to anyone who has had even a passing interest in Everett’s work: deceptively attractive melodies wrapped around lyrics that are mordant to some degree....
...Thom Willems’s pulsing electronic soundtrack can be hard going but in her lyrical pas de deux with Isaac Hernández, Dronina hastened or retarded each movement as if responding to an unheard melody....
...Predictable might seem an understatement when qualifying the surging predictabilities, the Ketelby-ish melodies, offered by Carl Davis’s muse....
...His plain-speaking prose is as hooky as one of his melodies, though as Everett is single, 44, and yet to become a dad, the book’s title is something of an ironic lonely hearts ad....
...Yet he mediates his grief with unkillable pop melodies, finding silver linings as infallibly as a metal detector....
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