When everyone wants to bang their heads against the edge of the table, it’s time for Mark Oliver “E” Everett. There is no other explanation for the fact that he has just recorded an album with the Eels produced by John Parish, which is almost bursting out of the holey T-shirt with energy. While E on EARTH TO DORA from 2020 sang tender consolation songs to music-clocked indie, rock’n’roll breaks out right here in the opener, only to later unfold its full turd potential in songs like “What It Isn’t”.
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EXTREME WITCHCRAFT is an album like a shrug, like a spontaneous chuckle when you walk the streets after a really screwed up day and find that all that crap, like life and such, is actually quite funny after all. “Good Night On Earth” is the name of a single that sounds like one of Jack White’s later projects with its blues rhythms and distortions.
If the devil comes for some souls in “Grandfather Clock Strikes Twelve” it does sound a bit like grandpa funk, but in a good way, Courtney Barnett couldn’t have done “Strawberries And Popcorn” any more casually. And when Everett comes to his special discipline with “Stumbling Bee”, the strange mid-tempo song, it becomes quite clear again what is special about the Eels, the stubborn but loyal horse among the old indie warhorses: that he is decent can dash off, but it’s actually best when it’s paralyzed.
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