Tomorrow Morning by The Eels

Tomorrow Morning, the ninth Eels studio album, came out on Vagrant in August 2010 and wraps up a trilogy of concept albums that started with Hombre Lobo in 2009 and ran through End Times earlier in 2010. After all that darkness, Mark Oliver Everett, the man known as E, finally lets the sun in: this is the hopeful end of the story, sweet melodies and a spring in its step, with E at the center of it as he has been from the start.

Critics heard it as a welcome turn away from the gloom of the two records before it, a breezy summertime pop album even if parts of it feel rushed, and one reviewer compared the melodic lift of "Spectacular Girl" to Beautiful Freak. E took the band back on the road for the first time since 2008 to promote it. "I Like the Way This Is Going" is the track that turned up on the countdowns.

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