EELS
EARTH TO DORA
WW
PIAS
★★★★
As if there weren’t bummers enough already, Mark Everett is back with Eels’ 13th album. Even when cheerful - as on the singalong title track, or the jolly but still sceptical fairground ride that’s Are We Alright Again - his air of resignation is palpable. Few make bummers this beautiful, though, as the blunt Are You Fucking Your Ex? reminds us, and when melancholy’s as pretty as Anything For Boo, a distant relative of The Velvet Underground’s Sunday Morning, or the New York-era Lou Reed of the gentle OK, we’re happy.