Description
BLINKING LIGHTS AND OTHER REVELATIONS is a two disc album about 34God and all the questions related to the subject of God,34 says it039s creator, Mark Oliver Everett, also known as eels leader E. 34It039s also about hanging on to my remaining shreds of sanity and the blue sky that comes the day after a terrible storm,34 he adds, 34and it039s a love letter to life itself, in all its beautiful, horrible glory.34A homemade epic, BLINKING LIGHTS is an imaginative, emotional reflection on the condition of living, recorded mostly in Everett039s Los Angeles basement over a period of several years. Sprawling over it039s two discs are songs about faith, responsibility, growing up, dignity, disappointment, comfort, hope and renewal. It039s the most personal eels album since 1998039s ELECTROSHOCK BLUES. That album dealt with the nearly simultaneous suicide of Everett039s sister and terminal illness of his mother, from the subjects039 points of view. This album finds him a few years down the line, now battling some of the family demons himself, with the after effects of past tragedies becoming more of a personal issue in his adult life, sometimes fearlessly autobiographical, and other times built around the related stories of others.
