EELS have today announced that they will release their fourteenth studio album ‘Extreme Witchcraft’ on January 28 2022. EELS are also set for a spring 2022 tour of Europe and America, which kicks off on 11th March at the Telegraph Building in Belfast and is immediately followed by a night at the 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin.

Co-produced by leader Mark Oliver Everett (aka E) and PJ Harvey producer and guitarist John Parish, the album is the first time the two have recorded together since 2001’s ‘Souljacker’.

On their collaboration, E says “John Parish is one of the most even-tempered, polite people I’ve ever met. A true gentleman. Actually he’s probably THE most polite person I’ve ever met. But when he gets into the studio he becomes a mad scientist. If you make music with John Parish, you get stuff no one else does. He has a really unique toolbox and musical outlook. Perhaps his politeness is a coping mechanism to keep Mr. Hyde under control when he’s out of his laboratory.”

While EELS have been notoriously eclectic over the years, they remain consistently critically acclaimed, releasing 13 studio albums since their 1996 debut, ‘Beautiful Freak’. In 2020, the group released “their sweetest natured album ever” in ‘Earth To Dora’, which was also widely acclaimed.

Tickets are available here.