Elvis Costello – Look Now (Deluxe Edition) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

From the release of his debut album, My Aim Is True, in 1977, Elvis Costello expressed his musical gluttony by mixing explosive pub rock, reggae tones, almost country-like ballads and pop songs sculpted with crystalline arpeggios. It was this eclecticism that allowed him to work with people as diverse as George Jones (the godfather of country music), Burt Bacharach (the master of pop lounge), the mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, the jazz guitarist Bill Frisell, and even the rappers from The Roots, just to name a few… Forty years later, the elusive spectacled Brit (having always been fond of concept albums), releases Look Now with the Imposters, featuring Steve Nieve on keyboards, Davey Faragher on bass and Pete Thomas (already the drummer of his group Attractions). This group, with whom he recorded Momofuku in 2008, give him the chance to get his writing pen out once again… and it’s as sharp as ever. Here he has shared the writing responsibilities with the great Carole King on Burnt Sugar Is so Bitter, co-written 25 years earlier, as well as with Bacharach on Photographs Can Lie and Don’t Look Now. Once again, it feels like Costello is searching for the perfect pop song. He takes an approach that screams 1960s. However, the timelessness of the album anchors the songwriter well in his time, in 2018. Costello succeeds in writing melodies and lyrics that stick in his listeners’ heads. A good song, as we all know, is ageless and Elvis Costello certainly reminds us of that here… – Marc Zisman

Tracklist:

1. Elvis Costello, The Imposters – Under Lime (05:34)
2. Elvis Costello, The Imposters – Don’t Look Now (02:28)
3. Elvis Costello, The Imposters – Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter (04:16)
4. Elvis Costello, The Imposters – Stripping Paper (03:52)
5. Elvis Costello, The Imposters – Unwanted Number (03:33)
6. Elvis Costello, The Imposters – I Let The Sun Go Down (04:26)
7. Elvis Costello, The Imposters – Mr. & Mrs. Hush (03:46)
8. Elvis Costello, The Imposters – Photographs Can Lie (03:38)
9. Elvis Costello, The Imposters – Dishonor The Stars (03:18)
10. Elvis Costello, The Imposters – Suspect My Tears (04:49)
11. Elvis Costello, The Imposters – Why Won’t Heaven Help Me? (03:22)
12. Elvis Costello, The Imposters – He’s Given Me Things (04:08)
13. Elvis Costello, The Imposters – Isabelle In Tears (04:01)
14. Elvis Costello, The Imposters – Adieu Paris (L’Envie Des Etoiles) (03:33)
15. Elvis Costello, The Imposters – The Final Mrs. Curtain (02:59)
16. Elvis Costello, The Imposters – You Shouldn’t Look At Me That Way (From The Motion Picture “Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool”) (04:30)