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A musical project that weds a rich variety of off-kilter pop influences with deeply personal lyrics often obsessing over the darker sides of human experience, Eels is the rubric used by singer, songwriter, and musician Mark Oliver Everett (aka E) for the music he creates with a rotating group of collaborators.

Everett has been the sole constant throughout the Eels' career, making music that's daring and emotionally revealing, sometimes sounding warm and organic (2005's Blinking Lights and Other Revelations and 2010's End Times), sometimes deliberately discordant and full of noisy textures (2001's Souljacker), but most often rooted in a melodic sense that manages to shine through even when the arrangements turn up the static (as on his 1996 debut Beautiful Freak, a strong exercise in bent indie pop).