Eels

Eels: If Electro-Shock Blues was the phone call in the middle of the night that the world doesn't want to answer, then Daisies of the Galaxy is the hotel wake-up call that says your lovely breakfast is ready.

Eels: After the commercial success of the Beautifull Freak album (1996), I made a decision. It all seemed like such an empty experience, being in that world of what's cool and popular at the moment. It represented everything I hated and now I was becoming part of it. It was making me hate myself more than I already did from my upbringing! And I was learning some great lessons about what matters from the tragedies that were occurring. I needed to go somewhere deeper. If any of the records sold less didn't matter to me.

Eels: (About his record, Electro-shock Blues) I have songs that are five times darker than the darkest stuff on this record, but I don't put them out because they don't offer the world anything. Some of those songs have no redeeming quality other than that they're just me venting my rage. I'm not interested in making everyone listen to that.