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Blinking Lights and Other Revelations

by Eels

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Overall Rating: 3.2392 Blinking Lights and Other Revelations is ranked overall as 3.2392 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.1357 Blinking Lights and Other Revelations has an avg. critic score of 3.1357 out of 4 stars

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PrefixMag

An exquisitely produced magnum opus. ...more

The Guardian

The first disc of this double CD jangles nerves with pop songs which dissect personal issues through wider problems facing America, but the stunning second finds meaning to it all in a series of supernaturally beautiful ballads. ...more

Junkmedia

A bipolar rock opera for the ages. ...more

The Onion (A.V. Club)

Blinking Lights is a junk heap dotted with pretty flowers. ...more

PrefixMag

Eels' Souljacker hit the streets in September 2001 sporting a cover photo of frontman Mark "E" Everett in dark sunglasses, a hoodie and full beard, looking like one of the fellows we were supposed to be smoking out of holes. That alienating ...more

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Uncut

To Mark �E� Everett, life must have long seemed a cosmic black joke. Famously losing his mother to cancer shortly after his sister�s 1996 suicide, his cousin dying on 9/11 was one more blow to a man already fragilely depressed. But he reacted ...more

All Music Guide

Blinking Lights and Other Revelations is blessed because of -- not in spite of -- its excesses. ...more

Austin Chronicle

Everett's double-album masterpiece, a definitive catharsis. ...more

Rolling Stone

Everett demonstrates disarming wit, tear-stained awareness and heavenly loser love. ...more

Trouser Press

Two albums of E musings is a bit much, but, on the whole, Blinking Lights does stand as a resounding return to form. ...more

Rolling Stone

For a double-disc set offering nearly ninety-four minutes of bittersweet, atmospheric rock, Eels'Blinking Lights and Other Revelationsis exceptionally concise: Twenty of its thirty-three tracks linger less than three minutes. Killer melodies are ...more

Pitchfork

There's a good album underneath all the filler-- probably the Eels' best since Electro-Shock Blues-- but it'll take some editing to excavate it. ...more

Pitch Fork Media

Dear Editors: Since I was assigned to cover the Eels' new album, Blinking Lights and Other Revelations , I have suffered a serious downturn in mental health. Repeatedly listening to the 90 minutes of music spread across two discs has sunk me into ...more

cokemachineglow

The harrowing track list of Electro-Shock just wears too thin here. ...more

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