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While I have never been a fan of Elvis Costello's sputtering lyrical broadsides, his ability to sight his targets with accuracy and bury them in withering scorn is usually second to none. But there is an untypical lack of focus on ''Blood | While I have never been a fan of Elvis Costello's sputtering lyrical broadsides, his ability to sight his targets with accuracy and bury them in withering scorn is usually second to none. But there is an untypical lack of focus on ''Blood & Chocolate'', both in the songs and in Nick Lowe's murky production. | ||
The Attractions sound as though they are bashing about in a scrapyard during "Uncomplicated" and there is an aura of seedy dilapidation in the droning instrumentation on the self-pitying "Poor Napoleon." | The Attractions sound as though they are bashing about in a scrapyard during "Uncomplicated" and there is an aura of seedy dilapidation in the droning instrumentation on the self-pitying "Poor Napoleon." | ||
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