Fra Eels Newsletter:

Dear EELStheband.com visitor,

STREAM THE NEW EELS ALBUM NOW:
From now until it’s released on Tuesday you can stream the entire new EELS HOMBRE LOBO album at the EELS MySpace page here:http://www.myspace.com/eels

Læs mere om albummet på http://www.eelstheband.com/eels_hombrelobo.php

And to make sure nobody could say otherwise, Eels has released a Deluxe Blinking Lights vinyl box set. From the newsletter:

The deluxe BLINKING LIGHTS package includes 3 LPs of the critically acclaimed album on vinyl for the first time with a fourth disc that is an exclusive 17 track live album, MANCHESTER 2005, recorded shortly after the release of BLINKING LIGHTS. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl, the 4 LPs each have their own covers, rice paper dust sleeves, and are accompanied by a hardback book of lyrics and photos, all housed in a beautifully crafted box that is numbered and begrudgingly signed by the author himself, EELS leader E. The edition is limited to only 2,500 copies and will be sold in order of lowest cover numbers first, 0001 – 2500. And this is not a fake signature like the ones often found on eBay. See a photo of the man himself signing them here: http://www.eelstheband.com/e_signs.htm

And the newsletter goes on with the feel-goods:

To celebrate the release of the EELS’ acclaimed BLINKING LIGHTS AND OTHER REVELATIONS 4 LP deluxe vinyl limited edition the band is giving away a 4 song EP download for one week.

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The free EP contains 4 songs from the exclusive MANCHESTER 2005 album, which is only available on vinyl as part of the BLINKING LIGHTS deluxe edition, but you can download the EP regardless of ordering the BLINKING LIGHTS deluxe edition. Anyone who wants the EP can have it!

If you have a vinyl-player, which all you cool guys have, I’d suggest you get the box. Heres the link for order and download: http://www.eelstheband.com/eels_blinkinglights_deluxe.php

1. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Howl
2. The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
3. Queens of the Stone Age – Lullabies to Paralyze
4. Eels – Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
5. System Of a Down – Mezmerize
6. Doves – Some Cities
7. Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary
8. Death Cab for Cutie – Plans
9. Sufjan Stevens – Come On Feel the Illinoise
10. Athlete – Tourist

Also very mentionable (In alphabetical order)

• …And You Will Know Us By Trail Of Dead – Worlds Apart
• Adams, Ryan – 29
• Adams, Ryan – Cold Roses
• Adams, Ryan & The Cardinals – Jacksonville City Nights
• Arcade Fire – Funeral
• Audioslave – Out of Exile
• Beck – Guero
• Block Party – Silent Alarm
• Bravery, The – The Bravery
• Broughton, David Thomas – The Complete Guide to Insufficiency
• dEUS – Pocket Revolution
• Elbow – Leaders of the Free World
• Electric Six – Señor Smoke
• Foo Fighters – In Your Honor
• Gorillaz – Demon Days
• Harcourt, Ed – Elephant’s Graveyard
• Kashmir – No Balance Palace
• Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
• Mercury Rev – The Secret Migration
• Nationals, The – Alligator
• Nine Black Alps – Everything Is
• Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth
• Opeth – Ghost Reveries
• Rouse, Josh – Nashville
• Spoon – Gimme Fiction
• Standard, The – Albatross
• Subways, The – Young for Eternity
• System of a Down – Hypnotize
• Turbonegro – Party Animals
• Whitey – The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is A Train
• Wilco – Kicking Television (Live) [If this wasn't live recordings from their three previous albums, it would definitely have been high up on that top ten list. I guess Wilco just have to be satisfied with the fact that they propably would have taken the top spots with their last two albums, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born]
• Wir Sind Helden – Von Hier An Blind