Daisies of the Galaxy by The Eels

Daisies of the Galaxy is the third Eels album, released by DreamWorks, and it's the sound of Mark Oliver Everett, the singer-songwriter who calls himself E and the one fixture in a Los Angeles band whose lineup keeps shifting around him, letting a little sunlight into the room. Butch was behind the kit at the time, and the record leans toward the indie-pop end of what Eels do: small, tuneful, handmade songs instead of big rock gestures.

E's standing obsessions (family, death, love that never comes back) are never far off, but the tunes stay light on their feet, and "Mr. E's Beautiful Blues" is the one radio couldn't leave alone. In Britain the album climbed to number eight on the albums chart.

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