Eels
The Trouble With Dreams

Taken from recent tune laden double album Blinking Lights and Other Revelations, Trouble with Dreams is vintage Eels in that from the off it pretty much sounds like a fairytale gone wrong; as the mischeivous tinkerbell riff and spooky hammond creep along you can imagine Tim Burton’s camera descending on a snow covered village of claymation monsters.

Whether hissing ‘Trouble with dreams is they don’t come true,’ as if angrily imparting an outrageous secret, or admitting _‘You don’t need a thing from me but I need something big from you,’_ the heart of the tune is a perfectly sculpted sense of melancholy romance. Despite a fantastic body of work the most recent thing E has had to a breakout single was Mr E’s Beautiful Blues back in 2000. While this is every bit as catchy it’s a shame that, as a download only single, it is unlikely to match it’s success.