Tomorrow Morning is a 2010 studio album by Eels

Eels (band)

Eels is an American indie rock band formed by singer/songwriter Mark Oliver Everett, better known as E...

—the third in a trilogy of concept album

Concept album

In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...

s including Hombre Lobo

Hombre Lobo

Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire is the seventh studio album by American rock band Eels, released on June 2, 2009. Hombre Lobo is Spanish for "werewolf." On March 31, 2009, the band made the track "Fresh Blood" available on Spinner.com, explaining that the song would be the lead single for the album...

(2009) and End Times

End Times (album)

-Charts:-Personnel:Eels*Wayne Bergeron – horns*Butch – drums*Chris Bleth – horns*E – vocals, guitars, bass guitar, harmonica, piano, Optigan, Hammond B3 organ, banjo, Harmonium, Vox Continental organ, drums, percussion, and production...

(2010). The band will tour for the album for the first time since their 2008 An Evening with Eels tour.

The album has been released on Compact Disc

Compact Disc

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, a two-CD edition with a bonus EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

, and a vinyl edition with the EP and a bonus 7" single. The vinyl edition was released on August 17, 2010, and the CD versions followed on August 24.

Critical reception

Wilbur Kane of The Skinny

The Skinny

The Skinny is the debut album by Slimm Cutta Calhoun.-Track listing:...

noted the album's optimistic tone—especially in comparison to Hombre Lobo—as well as the melodic tone of "Spectacular Girl", which he compared to Beautiful Freak

Beautiful Freak

Beautiful Freak is a 1996 album by musician Mark Oliver Everett, his first using a full band and the name Eels...

.

Track listing

1. "In Gratitude for This Magnificent Day" – 1:25
2. "I'm a Hummingbird" – 3:14
3. "The Morning" – 2:17
4. "Baby Loves Me" – 3:27
5. "Spectacular Girl" – 3:15
6. "What I Have to Offer" – 2:55
7. "This Is Where It Gets Good" – 6:18
8. "After the Earthquake" – 1:39
9. "Oh So Lovely" – 4:17
10. "The Man" – 3:51
11. "Looking Up" – 2:57
12. "That's Not Her Way" – 3:48
13. "I Like the Way This Is Going" – 2:35
14. "Mystery of Life" – 4:22

Bonus EP

1. "Swimming Lesson" – 2:55
2. "St. Elizabeth Story" – 2:29
3. "Let's Ruin Julie's Birthday" – 3:15
4. "For You" – 2:43

Personnel

Eels

• The Amy Davies Choir – harmony vocals
  Vocal harmony
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• E
  Mark Oliver Everett
  Mark Oliver Everett is the lead singer, songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist and sometime drummer of the independent rock band Eels...
  
   – vocals
  Singing
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  , guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  s, bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , harmonica
  Harmonica
  The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
  
  , piano
  Piano
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  , Optigan
  Optigan
  The Optigan was an electronic keyboard instrument designed for the consumer market. The name stems from the instrument's reliance on pre-recorded optical soundtracks to reproduce sound...
  
  , Hammond B3 organ
  Organ (music)
  The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
  
  , banjo
  Banjo
  In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...
  
  , harmonium
  Harmonium
  A harmonium is a free-standing keyboard instrument similar to a reed organ. Sound is produced by air being blown through sets of free reeds, resulting in a sound similar to that of an accordion...
  
  , Vox Continental
  Vox (musical equipment)
  Vox is a musical equipment manufacturer which is most famous for making the Vox AC30 guitar amplifier, the Vox Continental electric organ, and a series of innovative but commercially unsuccessful electric guitars and bass guitars...
  
   organ, drums
  Drum kit
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  , percussion
  Percussion instrument
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  , and production
  Record producer
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• Knuckles – drums
• Koool G Murder – bass guitar, guitar, recording and mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
  In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
  
  
• Tomorrow Morning Orchestra – horns

Charts

Chart (2010)	Peak position
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	18
German Albums Chart Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...	12
Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... (United States)	83