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Judging from his recent solo tour, Elvis Costello has been writing some of the strongest material of his career. Costello's next LP — ''Good Cruel World'', due out in June — will include the strongly syncopated "Inch by Inch"; a countryish tune called "The Only Flame in Town," which features backup vocals from Daryl Hall; and "Worthless Thing," a barbed assault on MTV (and, seemingly, rockabilly revivalists). But the tour de force is "Peace in Our Time," wherein Costello ties in everything | Judging from his recent solo tour, Elvis Costello has been writing some of the strongest material of his career. Costello's next LP — ''[[Goodbye Cruel World|Good Cruel World]]'', due out in June — will include the strongly syncopated "[[Inch By Inch|Inch by Inch]]"; a countryish tune called "[[The Only Flame In Town|The Only Flame in Town]]," which features backup vocals from [[Daryl Hall]]; and "[[Worthless Thing]]," a barbed assault on MTV (and, seemingly, rockabilly revivalists). But the tour de force is "[[Peace In Our Time|Peace in Our Time]]," wherein Costello ties in everything from Neville Chamberlain to Kraftwerk in a ringing indictment of Ronald Reagan's nuclear policy. "It's just a song I wanted out right now," he said of his decision to issue it immediately in England (where it's backed by a version of Richard and Linda Thompson's heartbreak classic "Wither and Die"). Costello has also produced a track for Special AKA called "Nelson Mandela" — a tribute to the sixty-five-year-old revolutionary of the African National Congress, now in his twenty-second year of imprisonment in South Africa. | ||
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