...Electro-Shock Blues was written largely in response to frontman Mark Oliver Everetts (more commonly known as E) sisters suicide and his mothers terminal lung cancer. The title refers to the electroconvulsive therapy received by Elizabeth Everett when she was institutionalized. Many of the songs deal with their decline, his response to loss and coming to terms with suddenly becoming the only living member of his family (his father having died of a heart attack in 1982; Everett, then 19 years old, was the first to discover his body).
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:18:05 +0000
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