EELS will release new Christmas song ‘Christmas, Why You Gotta Do Me Like This’ on 29th November 2023 and new compilation album ‘EELS So Good: Essential EELS, Vol. 2’ on 15th December 2023 via E Works / [PIAS].
Available to pre-order now, the album spans over 15 years, seven studio albums and features some of EELS best loved songs, including hits such as ‘Fresh Blood’ and ‘That Look You Gave That Guy’. New favourites from 2020’s ‘Earth To Dora’, as well as three previously unreleased tracks and five that are being pressed to vinyl for the very first time, including ‘Royal Pain’ from the motion picture ‘Shrek The Third’, and ‘Man Up’ from the official soundtrack of ‘Yes Man’ are also included.
The new Christmas track, ‘Christmas, Why You Gotta Do Me Like This’, an alternative yuletide ballad with a traditionally EELS twist, also features on the compilation album and follows the band’s previous festive offerings ‘Everything’s Gonna Be Cool This Christmas’ and ‘Christmas is Going to the Dogs’. Pre-save it now.
EELS So Good: Essential EELS, Vol.2 Track Listing:
- Fresh Blood
- That Look You Give That Guy
- A Line in the Dirt
- Little Bird
- Spectacular Girl
- I Like the Way This Is Going
- Peach Blossom
- Wonderful, Glorious
- Where I’m From
- Mistakes of My Youth
- The Deconstruction
- Today Is the Day
- You Are the Shining Light
- Are We Alright Again
- Earth to Dora
- Royal Pain [from the motion picture Shrek The Third (first time on vinyl)]
- Man Up [from the motion picture Yes Man (first time on vinyl)]
- Man I Keep Trying [from the motion picture Prisoner’s Daughter (previously unreleased)]
- Jazz Hands, Part I (previously unreleased)
- Christmas, Why You Gotta Do Me Like This (previously unreleased)
EELS So Good: Essential EELS, Vol.2 will be available as a digital release and in the following formats:
Vinyl
- Transparent green double vinyl
- 140g standard weight vinyl
- Gatefold Sleeve
- 12pp Booklet (300x300mm)
CD
- Digisleeve w/ 2 pockets
- 12pp Booklet
