‘Even as a devoted fan of Eels, I rarely come across an album as stuffed with fear, loathing and self-disgust as this one. It opens with Like Them, a miserable state-of-the-nation address in which a parent tries to find the balance between behaviour that might keep a child safe in today’s Britain and uncontrolled paranoia. Then it’s on to Drug Time (“In my whole life, I’ve never been clean”) and Failed Suicide Club.