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My Aim Is True
Elvis Costello
Wayne Garcia
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Although little can or needs to be said about Elvis Costello's superb 1977 debut, My Aim Is True, there's plenty to say about Mobile Fidelity's breathtaking new 180-gram vinyl release.
As mastered by MoFi vet Shawn Britton — see the feature on Mobile Fidelity in Issue 199 — who so loves this album that 25 years ago he named his daughter Alison after this record's best-known track, My Aim Is True is the sonic equivalent of an old master painting that has been scrubbed of ages' worth of muddy, detail-robbing varnish.
What was once tinny now has a genuine sense of weight and texture, be it Costello's ringing Fender Jazzmaster guitar, a floating cymbal, or the bottom end bump of bass and drums. What was once dynamically limp now snaps to life. And Costello's vocals — from the sweet tenor of "Alison" to the more slightly adenoidal sounds heard on "Sneaky Feelings," have a clarity and "there-ness" that will give you goose bumps. Moreover, there is a sense of musical coherence to the whole as well as a reach-out-and-grab-it immediacy that makes you feel as if you're back in that old London Pathways studio, eavesdropping on Costello and Co. at work.
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