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"I sang every note of the new record after I got the diagnosis," Elvis Costello confided recently. Last July, he cancelled a handful of dates after he toured too soon after surgery to remove a small tumour. Unsurprisingly, at its best, ''Look Now'' – Costello's 31st album – comes freighted with vivid feeling as well as sophisticated instrumentation and arrangements. | |||
"Stripping Paper" is a tremendous vignette that peels back the layers of a relationship, from the first flushes of a liaison (''"my back against the rococo wall"'') through the kiddy wallpaper to latter-day blankness. The excellent single "Unwanted Number," meanwhile, details a fraught process of romantic mismatching with Motown-style backing vocals. In 2017, Costello toured his ''Imperial Bedroom'' album of 1982; ''Look Now'' bears some resemblance to that first chamber-pop outing, in which relationships loomed large. | |||
Costello has collaborated here with | Costello has collaborated here with Burt Bacharach (two tracks) and Carole King (one), and in bowing to these giants of American song a surfeit of schmaltz creeps into his narrative voice. The album's title speaks of urgency; its nearest song, "Don't Look Now," details the unwanted advances that bedevil a model. But the episode twinkles a little too prettily for the subject matter. | ||
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*[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/14/elvis-costello-look-now-review? | *[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/14/elvis-costello-look-now-review? theguardian.com] | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer Wikipedia:The Observer] | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer Wikipedia:The Observer] | ||
