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Elvis Costello has always been prolific. Elvis Costello has always been creative. Yet how can he follow up an excellent album, ''Get Happy!!'' which was actually closer to a double album with 20 songs crammed onto a single disc, with a slew of singles and lp's that contain new and good material? (ep: extended play: somewhere between a "Double Single" and a "Mini-Album"; record companies have always been prolific, though not always this creative.) When is he going to burn out? ask the cynics. | Elvis Costello has always been prolific. Elvis Costello has always been creative. Yet how can he follow up an excellent album, ''Get Happy!!'' which was actually closer to a double album with 20 songs crammed onto a single disc, with a slew of singles and lp's that contain new and good material? (ep: extended play: somewhere between a "Double Single" and a "Mini-Album"; record companies have always been prolific, though not always this creative.) When is he going to burn out? ask the cynics. | ||
The two ep's under discussion here, '' | The two ep's under discussion here, ''High Fidelity'' and ''New Amsterdam'', both begin with their title songs which came from ''Get Happy!!'' — but it is the new material that is really of interest because, for the first time in his career, Elvis is producing his own music. | ||
Nick Lowe, Elvis' producer in the past and the producer again of the two album cuts, has a strong distinctively rich pop style that has for the most part sharpened both Elvis' music and his concepts, but it has also dulled the music at times, leaving Elvis adrift in the kind of "pure pop" morass that Lowe himself favors. | Nick Lowe, Elvis' producer in the past and the producer again of the two album cuts, has a strong distinctively rich pop style that has for the most part sharpened both Elvis' music and his concepts, but it has also dulled the music at times, leaving Elvis adrift in the kind of "pure pop" morass that Lowe himself favors. | ||
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