Mark Oliver Everett, the E in Eels, borrowed the title Cookie Happened from Cookie Monster: sad that the cookie is gone, happy that it happened. That idea runs through the band's sixteenth studio album, the follow-up to 2024's EELS TIME!. Across twelve songs it deals with small victories, inevitable disappointments and the strange miracle of having been here at all. All Forgotten looks at mortality with acceptance and gratitude, while the narrator of Cap In Hand tries to put his mistakes right. I'm On Standby and Congratulations To Me were also shared ahead of the album.

This edition is an LP on green vinyl.