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8.9
64889
8.9 |
Paste Magazine
As always with an Eels record, the song cycle moves through the emotions with a broad sweep and utter tumble
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8.0
64795
8.0 |
The Observer
A powerful and emotionally coherent set
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8.0
64730
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
There is something rather special in these cautionary tales, something that all of us can learn from
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8.0
64731
8.0 |
Uncut
As frustratingly close to perfect as always. Print edition only
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8.0
64732
8.0 |
Mojo
This is a majestically constructed personal struggle that delivers a typically unhappy ending. Print edition only
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8.0
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8.0 |
Q
A always with the finest Eels albums, Everett's loss is the listener's gain. Print edition only
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8.0
64757
8.0 |
DIY
A gorgeous, luscious Eels record
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8.0
64767
8.0 |
The Irish Times
It’s all executed in his customary unflinchingly honest style, and sung in a weathered, morose voice on first-name terms with Randy Newman and early Tom Waits
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8.0
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8.0 |
Independent on Sunday
His voice is a bruised husk but his majestic emoting echoes mid-1970s Tom Waits’s “wasted and wounded” grandeur
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7.8
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7.8 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
In its simplicity lies a uniquely Eels beauty, realistic and wise
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7.0
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7.0 |
Loud And Quiet
It’s E’s most stylistically consistent in years, a largely acoustic, plaintive album
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7.0
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7.0 |
musicOMH
Though this is a flawed collection, The Cautionary Tales Of Mark Oliver Everett still partially succeeds in getting the message across perfectly in an accessible and honest manner
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7.0
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7.0 |
NME
Stripped back, raw and deeply personal
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7.0
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7.0 |
All Music
He turned 50 while writing these songs, so maybe that has something to do with the heavy and regretful tone that washes through these rather muted, weary, and almost whispered musings
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7.0
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7.0 |
The Music
He’s still happily unhappy to dig around in the dusty corners of his psyche and tell you about it. If you’re prepared to listen to some sometimes uncomfortable home truths, you’ll probably learn something
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6.0
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6.0 |
The 405
The real cautionary tale, it seems, is that if you're going to make something that's superficially lovely, it's best to have some genuine emotional heft to back it up
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6.0
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6.0 |
PopMatters
It’s a record Everett needed to put away, but also one he needed to return to. That makes it fractured, but worthwhile too
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Independent
Wracked with recrimination, remorse and self-doubt
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6.0
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6.0 |
Earbuddy
While it’s not as personal as Electro-Shock Blues, its somber, reflective tone bares closer similarity to the best Eels albums
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5.5
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5.5 |
Under The Radar
While it may be a cathartic exercise for its creator, the result for listeners is much less pleasing
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5.0
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5.0 |
Slant Magazine
Underwhelming
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5.0
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5.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Angst, even of a very middle-aged kind, is still proving tough for Everett to fully let go of
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4.0
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4.0 |
The FT
The songs are slight and structured with saccharine simplicity
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3.3
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3.3 |
Consequence Of Sound
What The Cautionary Tales needs is a prudent pruning
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