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<center><h3> The Boy Named If </h3></center> | <center><h3> ''The Boy Named If'' </h3></center> | ||
<center>''' Elvis Costello & The Imposters </center> | <center>''' Elvis Costello & The Imposters </center> | ||
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<center> | <center> Wyndham Wallace </center> | ||
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Elvis Costello hurtles out of traps on his latest studio album as though he’s going to miss the plane to his wedding. Opener Farewell OK launches with clanging chords like The Beatles auditioning for their lives, before Steve Nieve throws in hammered pianos, then for good measure, his organ, determined to provoke 96 Tears from the boss before it’s over. It’s enough to make Pump It Up sound laidback, and Pump It Up’s not laidback. | |||
Costello’s close to 70 now, and yet ''The Boy Named If'' finds him flexing his muscles like he’s still in his twenties. Further putting the rest of us to shame, it’s only a year since ''Hey Clockface'' – though its pace dipped after its singles – and he’s also kept busy overseeing a Spanish version of ''This Year's Model'' plus an ''Armed Forces'' boxset. Frankly, one wonders where he finds the energy, but it’s spilling out from multiple tracks here, with Penelope Halfpenny an ebullient reminder of ''Spike''’s Macca co-write Veronica and Mistook Me For A Friend going off like a wayward firework, echoing ''Blood & Chocolate''’s Tokyo Storm Warning with breathless rants about how “I had a pocket full of Presidents/ A suitcase full of elements/ The double-cross of spectacles /A mogul for mechanicals.” | |||
The Death Of Magic Thinking barely pauses for breath either, with Pete Thomas’ drums a martial tattoo and Magnificent Hurt’s dependent on another pounding beat, not to mention a magnificently spiky guitar solo. | |||
Even on slower tracks Costello means business, with What If I Can’t Give You Anything But Love? packed with churning guitars and cheating husbands while the title track’s deliberately leaden pace delivers repeated slaps to the face. If there’s a weakness, it’s that, in his haste to portray his cast of vaudeville characters, he gets a little verbose – his lyric sheet amounts to some 4,000 words! – but perhaps this merely suggests he’s been reading Edward Lear. Make no mistake, this year’s model is yet again, vintage Costello. | |||
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{{tags}}[[The Boy Named If]] {{-}} [[The Imposters]] {{-}} [[Farewell, OK]] {{-}} [[The Beatles]] {{-}} [[Steve Nieve]] {{-}} [[96 Tears]] {{-}} [[Pump It Up]] {{-}} [[Hey Clockface]] {{-}} [[Spanish Model]] {{-}} [[This Year's Model]] {{-}} [[The Complete Armed Forces (2020 super deluxe edition)|Armed Forces]] {{-}} [[Penelope Halfpenny]] {{-}} [[Spike]] {{-}} [[Paul McCartney]] {{-}} [[Veronica]] {{-}} [[Mistook Me For A Friend]] {{-}} [[Blood & Chocolate]] {{-}} [[Tokyo Storm Warning]] {{-}} [[The Death Of Magic Thinking]] {{-}} [[Pete Thomas]] {{-}} [[Magnificent Hurt]] {{-}} [[What If I Can't Give You Anything But Love?]] | |||
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'''Classic Pop, No. 73, January - February 2022 | '''Classic Pop, No. 73, January - February 2022 | ||
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[[Wyndham Wallace]] reviews ''[[The Boy Named If]]''. | |||
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