Wonderful, Glorious

Rock · 2013 · 26 tracks · 1h 30m

Wonderful, Glorious

A gritty, collaborative pivot toward optimism. Distorted bass lines and garage-rock energy meet Mark Oliver Everett's signature weathered wisdom.

It's the EELS album where they finally decide to kick the door down instead of just crying behind it.

A gritty, defiant surge of energy that finds strength in scars and distorted bass riffs.

Wonderful, Glorious · vs · EELS

Basement Show+2.6σ

Basement Show saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 26 Tracks · 1h 30m

01

Bombs Away

5:24

01

Hold on to Your Hat

0:47

02

Kinda Fuzzy

3:38

02

Your Mama Warned You

3:10

03

Accident Prone

2:49

03

I’m Your Brave Little Soldier

2:51

04

Peach Blossom

4:02

04

There’s Something Strange

3:13

05

Happy Hour (We’re Gonna Rock)

3:50

05

On the Ropes

3:11

06

That’s Not Really Funny (live 2011)

4:55

06

The Turnaround

4:50

07

In My Dreams (live 2010)

3:07

07

New Alphabet

4:08

08

Stick Together

3:43

08

Prizefighter (live 2010)

3:02

09

Looking Up (live 2011)

5:06

09

True Original

3:48

10

Open My Present

3:10

10

What I Have to Offer

2:57

11

You’re My Friend

3:47

11

I Like the Way This Is Going (live at KEXP)

2:13

12

I Am Building a Shrine

3:35

12

Spectacular Girl (live at KEXP)

3:33

13

Summer in the City (live at KEXP)

2:12

13

Wonderful, Glorious

3:44

Moments Worth Waiting For

The explosive, fuzzed-out bass drop that anchors the opening of Bombs Away

The transition from the delicate, vulnerable verses of On the Ropes to its bruising, anthemic chorus

The way the title track builds from a skeletal beat into a triumphant, layered wall of sound

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