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Elvis Costello Releases ‘Hey Clockface’ Album: It’s Time

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Elvis Costello has released a new album, Hey Clockface, recorded in Helsinki, Paris, and New York. The album, which arrived Oct. 30, is his first new music since 2018, and is at times playful, on other occasions introspective. The highlight is its jaunty title track; listen to it and many of the other tracks below.

Following the solo recording of the songs “No Flag,” “Hetty O’Hara Confidential” and “We Are All Cowards Now” at Suomenlinnan Studio, Helsinki by Eetü Seppälä in February, Costello immediately traveled to Paris for a weekend session at Les Studios Saint Germain.

Costello says, “I sang live on the studio floor, directing from the vocal booth. We cut nine songs in two days. We spoke very little. Almost everything the musicians played was a spontaneous response to the song I was singing. I’d had a dream of recording in Paris like this, one day.”

The ensemble, dubbed, “Le Quintette Saint Germain” by Costello, was recruited for these dates by Steve Nieve (who plays grand piano, upright piano, organ, mellotron and melodica) and features Mickaél Gasche on trumpet, flugel horn and serpent, Pierre-François “Titi” Dufour on cello, and the drums, percussion and high harmonies of Ajuq.

Reed player Renaud-Gabriel Pion plays contrabass clarinet, bass clarinet, Bb clarinet, tenor saxophone, bass flute and cor anglais. The Paris sessions were recorded by François Delabrière.

The New York sessions were produced by composer, arranger and trumpet player, Michael Leonhart in collaboration with guitarists, Bill Frisell and Nels Cline and completed, lyrically and vocally by Costello, “via Electrical Wire.”

The musician had been teasing the first two songs’ release in late spring and early summer with a series of tweets that featured some of the songs’ lyrics and illustrations from the music videos. Costello performs Hammond organ, Fender Jazzmaster, upright piano, Rhythm Ace and “all other noises.”

She could kill a man with a single stroke,” he sings on “Hetty O’Hara Confidential.” “She is not the one you want to provoke.”

As with all of us, 2020 has been a memorable year for Costello, though he has several unique reasons. On Feb. 14, he became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, at a ceremony overseen by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace.

And though his celebrated career is decades old, Costello had never won a Grammy Award for one of his albums. That all changed at the 62nd Grammy Awards, held on Jan 26. The musician won for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for his Oct. 2018 release, Look Now. The legend had previously won in 1999 for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, with Burt Bacharach.

You may be joking, but I don’t get the gag,” he sings in “No Flag.” “I sense no future, but time seems to drag.”

Hey Clockface Track Listing

Revolution #49
No Flag
They’re Not Laughing At Me Now
Newspaper Pane
(Elvis Costello /Michael Leonhart / Bill Frisell)
I Do (Zula’s Song)
We Are All Cowards Now
Hey Clockface/How Can You Face Me?
(Elvis Costello/Andy Razaf & Thomas Fats Waller)
The Whirlwind
Hetty O’Hara Confidential
The Last Confession Of Vivian Whip
(Words: Elvis Costello | Music: Steve Nieve & Muriel Teodori)
What Is It That I Need That I Don’t Already Have?
Radio Is Everything
(Elvis Costello / Michael Leonhart / Bill Frisell / Nels Cline)
I Can’t Say Her Name
Byline

All songs written by Elvis Costello except as noted.


Tags: Hey ClockfaceHelsinkiParisNew YorkNo FlagHetty O'Hara ConfidentialWe Are All Cowards NowLe Quintette Saint GermainSteve NieveMickaël GaschePierre-François "Titi" DufourAJUQRenaud-Gabriel PionMichael LeonhartBill FrisellNels ClineLook NowBurt BacharachGrammy Awards

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