EELS – release new track ‘Congratulations To Me’, ahead of forthcoming album ‘Cookie Happened’

Critically acclaimed rock group EELS have today shared their brand new track ‘Congratulations To Me’. It offers the latest glimpse into their forthcoming 16th studio album, COOKIE HAPPENED, arriving on 16th October via E Works / Play It Again Sam.

On ‘Congratulations To Me’, E (Mark Oliver Everett) reflects on reaching a point where it’s time to stop taking certain things so seriously. 

He explains: “This is someone who has reached a breaking point and is celebrating it, but not in a defeated way, more of a ‘why did I care about stuff that doesn’t matter that much, I’m finally liberated’ way. Or something.”

‘Congratulations To Me’ is the fourth offering from COOKIE HAPPENED, following the previously released ‘Cap In Hand’, ‘All Forgotten’ and ‘I’m On Standby’. Together, the four tracks begin to paint a picture of an album that finds E turning his gaze toward life’s small victories, inevitable disappointments and the strange miracle of having been here at all.

COOKIE HAPPENED follows 2024’s critically acclaimed EELS TIME!, which saw EELS continuing their remarkable late-career run with a collection of songs that balanced reflection, humour and hard-won optimism. With its latest offering, EELS once again demonstrates that few artists are better at finding meaning in life’s messiest moments.

COOKIE HAPPENED Tracklist:

01 CLOBBERED

02 CAP IN HAND

03 ALL FORGOTTEN

04 BAMBOOZLED AGAIN

05 LOST AND BARKING

06 TAKING PICTURES

07 NEW STORY

08 CONGRATULATIONS TO ME

09 ONE RAZZLE, ONE DAZZLE

10 I’M ON STANDBY

11 DUM DUMS

12 THE WAY I WAS MADE

Pre-order here.