Eels’ frontman Mark Oliver Everett has been thinking about death. Again. Having split with his wife in 2005, and lost his mother on 9/11, he’s got some musin’ to do. It’s more than a little impressive that something as solid as End Times could come hot on the heels of something so very interesting as Hombre Lobo. Hardly enough time to pause for breath or reflection , Everett’s just gotten around to releasing his divorce album. He’s a horribly strung-out love junkie on End Times, pining for his ex, talking to the animals and thinking the crazy homeless prophet on the corner is clued into his own gloomy emotional gulag. Everett keeps these dirges short, spare and pretty. ‘I Need a Mother’ is an astonishing moment of emotional honesty. ‘In My Younger Days’ places the narrative thread in the hands of the grey bearded chap on the album art, and ‘Gone Man’, for its glum outlook, is a killer, killer track.