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Costello's odd passion play that was ''Imperial Bedroom'', his previous album, and ''Almost Blue'', his LP tribute to country music, seems to have recharged his batteries. He's back with a big, brassy sound and the carnival atmosphere Steve Nieve's keyboards create so well. | Costello's odd passion play that was ''Imperial Bedroom'', his previous album, and ''Almost Blue'', his LP tribute to country music, seems to have recharged his batteries. He's back with a big, brassy sound and the carnival atmosphere Steve Nieve's keyboards create so well. | ||
Except maybe for "T.K.O. (Boxing Day)," which supplants outright boogie for message, kernels of wit and wisdom run through all of <i>Punch the Clock</i>'s | Except maybe for "T.K.O. (Boxing Day)," which supplants outright boogie for message, kernels of wit and wisdom run through all of <i>Punch the Clock</i>'s 13 songs. | ||
The themes continue to work out Costello's obsession with love and infidelity. The sense of indignation harbored in this singer, who still wears the skinny necktie, white socks and heavy black glasses of a 1960s-era square is never nastier than in the song "Charm School." It's all about the classic type meeting the soft-edged girl-from-the-charm-school type. And it's all drummer Pete Thomas' cymbals can do to portray the clash. | The themes continue to work out Costello's obsession with love and infidelity. The sense of indignation harbored in this singer, who still wears the skinny necktie, white socks and heavy black glasses of a 1960s-era square is never nastier than in the song "Charm School." It's all about the classic type meeting the soft-edged girl-from-the-charm-school type. And it's all drummer Pete Thomas' cymbals can do to portray the clash. |
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