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Reunited with the Attractions for the first time since the ''Blood and Chocolate'' sessions of the mid-'80s, you'd expect the cleverest Elvis to use the occasion to rock out with multi-syllabic abandon, but ''Brutal Youth'' is one of the bespectacled one's politest offerings to date. | Reunited with the Attractions for the first time since the ''Blood and Chocolate'' sessions of the mid-'80s, you'd expect the cleverest Elvis to use the occasion to rock out with multi-syllabic abandon, but ''Brutal Youth'' is one of the bespectacled one's politest offerings to date. | ||
But attitude is relative isn't it? Costello is far too literate a rocker to be satisfied with crafting angst-filled platitudes like the grungy wankers that have so many critics in a tizzy these days | But attitude is relative isn't it? Costello is far too literate a rocker to be satisfied with crafting angst-filled platitudes like the grungy wankers that have so many critics in a tizzy these days. | ||
Still, nobody wields a verbal cutlass or turns a phrase quite like EC. Whether musing on the inconvenience of having a doppelganger that feeds off of his emotional pain in "My Science Fiction Twin" or the middle-brow comedy of the circus work stoppage he describes in "Clown Strike," Costello is perceptive to a precious fault. | Still, nobody wields a verbal cutlass or turns a phrase quite like EC. Whether musing on the inconvenience of having a doppelganger that feeds off of his emotional pain in "My Science Fiction Twin" or the middle-brow comedy of the circus work stoppage he describes in "Clown Strike," Costello is perceptive to a precious fault. |
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