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Cover of Cookie Happened
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Album · Play It Again Sam · out 16 Oct 2026

Cookie Happened

Eels

XLR rating

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Out of 10 · awaiting a listen by the desk

Press score

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Not collected yet · the reviews we read are linked below

Apple Music ↗Bandcamp ↗YouTube ↗

The player loads only when you press it · Spotify and Apple Music open the artist’s page, not this record · Bandcamp, YouTube open a search

Tracklist

  1. 01ClobberedSGR
  2. 02Cap In HandSGR
  3. 03All ForgottenSGR
  4. 04Bamboozled AgainSGR
  5. 05Lost and BarkingSGR
  6. 06Taking PicturesSGR
  7. 07New StorySGR
  8. 08Congratulations to MeSGR
  9. 09One Razzle, One DazzleSGR
  10. 10I'm On StandbySGR
  11. 11Dum DumsSGR
  12. 12The Way I Was MadeSGR

12 tracks, 40 minutes · Titles and lengths from MusicBrainz ↗ (CC0), checked 12 Oct 2026 · tracks: Skip · Good · On repeat, by the desk, after listening

The desk’s take

Awaiting a listen.

When someone on the desk has heard the whole record, they write a paragraph here and sign it

What the press said

  • 11 OctEELS -Cookie Happened (PIAS) (13th Floor Album Review)The 13th Floor ↗

    Thirty years after Beautiful Freak introduced the world to Mark Oliver Everett’s gallery of wounded outsiders and bittersweet observations, Eels’ sixteenth studio album, Cookie Happened, finds E once…

Headlines and short excerpts from the stories we read, each linked to its source · more appear as the press publishes them

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Release data: MusicBrainz ↗, matched from ListenBrainz new releases named in our headlines on 12 Oct 2026