Eels Announce Summer 2018 Tour Dates with Release of Acoustic Version of “Today Is The Day”

Eels will begin a worldwide summer tour in support of their new album, The Deconstruction, beginning May 28 in Pomona, California with additional shows in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and more.

The group has also released a special acoustic version of “Today is the Day” which reduces the song to its essential elements: haunting melody coupled with the nuanced vocals of singer Mark Oliver Everett, known as E. The bared down acoustic version magnifies the track’s lyrics, revealing the song’s optimistic tone: “Today is the day it starts right her/ Don’t gotta a thing to worry about now/ Today is the day it starts right here/ Come on man, and don’t you worry now.”

Everett, who writes and produces much of the group’s work, formed the band in California in 1995. Over the years, Eels have produced a total of twelve studio albums including their latest effort, The Deconstruction, which finds Everett reflecting on personal baggage and deconstructing one’s sense of self. In an interview with NPR, Everett discusses the album’s concept: “We spend most of our lives after we’re born slowly building up these defenses and walls around ourselves,” Everett explains. “I just thought, ‘What’s underneath all that? What would happen if you tore down those defenses?'”

Check out the new song and a list of summer tour dates here:

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 12—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 19—Strasbourg, France—Lalterie
July 20—Lucerne, Switzerland—KKL Blue Balls Festival