Elvis Costello & Elvis Costello & The ImpostersBest Elvis Costello & Elvis Costello & The Imposters Albums Ranked

Painted from Memory: The New Songs of Bacharach & Costello

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8.0

“In case you missed his cameo in Austin Powers or his nationally televised tribute concert, Burt Bacharach is again in vogue; his opulent brand of Sixties-pop songwriting has found a new audience among swizzle-stick hipsters. Elvis Costello, on the other hand, has seen his chic factor drop to less than zero in recent years, in […]”

The Juliet Letters

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8.0

“Several of the characters on Elvis Costello’s new album share a common dilemma: Their aims are true, but this world is killing them. The once and sometimes still Declan MacManus has covered a lot of ground since emerging as the most gifted of the angry young singer-songwriters of the late Seventies. With The Juliet Letters, […]”

Brutal Youth

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6.0

“If it’s true that Elvis Costello and his wife, Cait O’Riordan, wrote the 10 songs on Wendy James’ last album in one weekend — songs that sounded like outtakes from This Year’s Model — then Brutal Youth’s 15 tunes, penned by Costello himself, probably came the following week. After a classical foray with the Brodsky […]”

Mighty Like a Rose

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6.0

“In time you can turn these obsessions into careers," sings Elvis Costello on Mighty Like a Rose. This is true. Almost a decade and a half after emerging as punk’s brightest angry young man, Costello faces a musical midlife crisis. Will his caustic anger, once so cathartic and cleansing, congeal into bitterness? Is he stuck […]”