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A-Sides
A-Sides: Empress Of, Elvis Costello, Usher, Windhand, and Farao
Gwen Ihnat
Elvis Costello, Look Now
[Concord Records, October 12]
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Sixty-four-year-old Elvis Costello has sailed past his recent cancer scare, is touring, and has just released a kickass album with the Imposters, his first with them in 10 years: Look Now. At this point in his career, Costello has so much to draw on, so many genres to embrace and influences to honor, that the appearance of Burt Bacharach playing piano on the delicate “Don’t Look Now” comes as no surprise, nor does the R&B swagger of “Unwanted Number” or a Carole King co-writing credit on “Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter.” Costello emulates Bacharach on Look Now, with his singular and stronger-than-ever vocals demanding crooning time on ballads like “Stripping Paper” and “Suspect My Tears.” But this ambitious, sprawling release also offers Sgt. Pepper’s-esque flourishes in the epic kickoff “Under Lime” and the captivating story-song of the man who lost the British Empire in “I Let The Sun Go Down,” where Costello rails, “Delay the night / I’m too young for twilight.”
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