EELS have announced their 16th studio album, Cookie Happened, set for release on October 16 via E Works / Play It Again Sam.
Alongside the announcement, the band have shared the album’s first single, “Cap In Hand,” a bittersweet track written from the perspective of someone confronting their mistakes and trying to make things right.
Speaking about the album title, EELS frontman E, aka Mark Oliver Everett, said: “All of this will be forgotten. Every joy, accomplishment and hardship will one day become so irrelevant it will be as if none of it occurred. But as the great philosopher of our times, Cookie Monster once said: ‘Me no cry because cookie is finished. Me smile because cookie happened.’ This will all be forgotten. But isn’t it still a beautiful thing that it happened?”
Cookie Happened follows 2024’s EELS Time! and finds Everett reflecting on life’s small victories, disappointments and the strange beauty of having lived through it all.
Explaining “Cap In Hand,” E said: “I wanted to sound kind of worn out for this one too, like someone who’s messed up their life but now sees the error of their ways and is trying to make amends with their tail between their legs.”
He added: “You know how record companies are: ‘We don’t care what you give us, just make sure you sound defeated on the first two tracks!’”
EELS – Cookie Happened tracklist
1. Clobbered
2. Cap In Hand
3. All Forgotten
4. Bamboozled Again
5. Lost And Barking
6. Taking Pictures
7. New Story
8. Congratulations To Me
9. One Razzle, One Dazzle
10. I’m On Standby
11. Dum Dums
12. The Way I Was Made
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