New EELS THE DECONSTRUCTION Out Today + Additional Tour Dates

Watch/share the official video for EELS' song "Bone Dry" off of their new album The Deconstruction, out today on E Works/[PIAS]. The stop-motion video was produced by Starburns Industries' Duke Johnson and Dino Stamatopoulos, the team behind Charlie Kaufman's Anomalisa, and directed by Sofia Astrom, who noted, "E really liked Duke Johnson's idea of dancing skeletons for "Bone Dry." My co-producer and art director Tony Candelaria and I knew that we needed the best skeleton animator in the world, so we brought in Anthony Scotts (Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride) to help us make E's skeletons come to life."

The new album continues to garner widespread critical praise including
Wednesday's in-depth interview with Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air. Stereogum calls the title track "a genuinely gorgeous piece of music," while Q Magazine declares the album "a captivating return from one of indie rock's most consistent songwriters," giving the album 4 stars. Likewise MOJO proclaims it "Gorgeous... another EELS album to treasure" in its 4 star review.To celebrate the release of The Deconstruction,EELS will tour worldwide this summer, with a North American headline run kicking offMay 28 in Pomona, CA and further shows in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, New York, D.C. and more. See below for full tour detais.

The album was performed by E and longtime collaborators Koool G Murder and P-Boo, alongside The Deconstruction Orchestra and Choir, and produced by E with some songs produced with Mickey Petralia for the first time since 1998's Electro-Shock Blues.

EELS have had one of the most consistently acclaimed careers in music. The ever-changing projects of principal singer/songwriter E (Mark Oliver Everett), EELS have released 11studio albums since their 1996 debut, Beautiful Freak. In 2008, E published his highly acclaimed book Things the Grandchildren Should Know and starred in the award-winningParallel Worlds, Parallel Lives documentary about the search to understand his quantum physicist father, Hugh Everett III. EELS released their critically acclaimed The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett in 2014, and 2015 saw the release of the band's extraordinary seventh live album Live at Royal Albert Hall, recorded at the storied London venue and accompanied by a concert film. In the same year, the band's "Fresh Blood" served as the theme song to HBO's "The Jinx" and from 2016 to 2018 E appeared in Judd Apatow's Netflix original series "Love."

EELS TOUR DATES

May 28-Pomona, CA-The Glass House*

May 30-Los Angeles, CA-Fonda Theatre

May 31-San Francisco, CA-The Fillmore

June 1-Portland, OR-Crystal Ballroom

June 2-Seattle, WA-The Showbox

June 5-Minneapolis, MN-First Avenue

June 6-Chicago, IL-Thalia Hall

June 8-Boston, MA-House of Blues

June 9-Brooklyn, NY-Brooklyn Steel

June 10-Philadelphia, PA-Union Transfer

June 11-Washington, DC-Lincoln Theatre

June 17-Mannheim, Germany-Maifeld Derby Festival

June 18,19-Utrecht, Netherlands-Tivoli Vredenburg

June 21-Amsterdam, Netherlands-Paradiso

June 23-Cesena, Italy-Acieloaperto - Rocca Malatestiana

June 25-Munich, Germany-TonHalle

June 26-Cologne, Germany-E-Werk

June 28-Berlin, Germany-Tempodrom

June 29-Hamburg, Germany-Mehr! Theater

June 30-Luxembourg, Luxembourg-Siren's Call

July 2-London, UK-O2 Academy Brixton

July 3-Manchester, UK-Manchester Academy

July 4-Glasgow, UK-O2 Academy

July 6-Dublin, Ireland-Iveagh Gardens

July 8-Werchter, Belgium-Rock Werchter

July 9-Paris, France-Olympia

July 11-Barcelona, Spain-BARTS

July 12- Madrid, Spain-Mad Cool Festival

July 13-Lisbon, Portugal-NOS Alive Festival

July 16-Feldkirch, Austria-Poolbar Festival

July 17-Vienna, Austria-Arena

July 20-Lucerne, Switzerland-KKL Blue Balls Festival

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