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Punch The Clock
Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Adam Robitaille
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Elvis Costello is always changing. Sometimes not for the better, but never the less changing. Punch the Clock, which is generally pop sounding in nature, is a rapid departure from last year's Imperial Bedroom, which featured lush keyboards from the Attractions' Steve Nieve, and extravagant orchestral arrangements. Punch the Clock features the TKO horns, a brass section that alternately adds and detracts to Costello's sound. "Let Them All Talk" and "The Greatest Thing" evidence the sympathetic use of horns by Costello. "Everyday I Write the Book," a great pop song, and "Shipbuilding," an excellent anti-war song, also stand out. However, as in "Pill and Soap," the horns can detract from Costello's voice and Nieve's keyboards. All in all, though, Elvis is too good of a writer and arranger to compose terribly bad music and this basically holds true on this record.
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