BLINKING LIGHTS AND OTHER REVELATIONS is a two disc album about God and all the questions related to the subject of God, says its creator, Mark Oliver Everett, also known as eels leader E. Its also about hanging on to my remaining shreds of sanity and the blue sky that comes the day after a terrible storm, he adds, and its a love letter to life itself, in all its beautiful, horrible glory.A homemade epic, BLINKING LIGHTS is an imaginative, emotional reflection on the condition of living, recorded mostly in Everetts Los Angeles basement over a period of several years. Sprawling over its two discs are songs about faith, responsibility, growing up, dignity, disappointment, comfort, hope and renewal. Its the most personal eels album since 1998s ELECTRO-SHOCK BLUES. That album dealt with the nearly simultaneous suicide of Everetts sister and terminal illness of his mother, from the subjects points of view. This album finds him a few years down the line, now battling some of the family demons himself, with the after effects of past tragedies becoming more of a personal issue in his adult life, sometimes fearlessly autobiographical, and other times built around the related stories of others.