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| <span style="font-size:92%"> '''Unicorn Times''' [[Unicorn Times index|{{n}}]] </span> | | <span style="font-size:92%"> '''Unicorn Times''' [[Unicorn Times index|{{n}}]] </span> | ||
*[[Unicorn Times, May 1977|1977 May] | *[[Unicorn Times, May 1977|1977 May]] | ||
*[[Unicorn Times, July 1977|1977 July] | *[[Unicorn Times, July 1977|1977 July]] | ||
*[[Unicorn Times, September 1977|1977 September] | *[[Unicorn Times, September 1977|1977 September]] | ||
*[[Unicorn Times, October 1977|1977 October] | *[[Unicorn Times, October 1977|1977 October]] | ||
*[[Unicorn Times, November 1977|1977 November]][ | *[[Unicorn Times, November 1977|1977 November]] | ||
*[[Unicorn Times, February 1978|1978 February]][http://digdc.dclibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16808coll16/id/ | *[[Unicorn Times, January 1978|1978 January]] | ||
*[[Unicorn Times, June 1978|1978 June]][http://digdc.dclibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16808coll16/id/ | *[[Unicorn Times, February 1978|1978 February]] | ||
*[[Unicorn Times, January 1979|1979 January] | *[[Unicorn Times, March 1978|1978 March]] | ||
*[[Unicorn Times, April 1978|1978 April]][http://digdc.dclibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16808coll16/id/4569 {{t}}] | |||
*[[Unicorn Times, June 1978|1978 June]] | |||
*[[Unicorn Times, December 1978|1978 December]][http://digdc.dclibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16808coll16/id/5185 {{t}}] | |||
*[[Unicorn Times, January 1979|1979 January]] | |||
*[[Unicorn Times, February 1979|1979 February]] | *[[Unicorn Times, February 1979|1979 February]] | ||
*[[Unicorn Times, | *[[Unicorn Times, June 1979|1979 June]] | ||
*[[Unicorn Times, March 1981|1981 March]][ | *[[Unicorn Times, July 1979|1979 July]][http://digdc.dclibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16808coll16/id/1456 {{t}}] | ||
*[[Unicorn Times, March 1980|1980 March]] | |||
*[[Unicorn Times, March 1981|1981 March]] | |||
*[[Unicorn Times, January 1983|1983 January]][https://digdc.dclibrary.org/islandora/object/dcplislandora%3A30321?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=ab831e166e8915cdb282&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=2#page/1/mode/1up {{t}}] | |||
*[[Unicorn Times, August 1984|1984 August]] | |||
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MARCH 1981 PAGE 37 | |||
ELVIS COSTELLO: | |||
IN ELVIS WE TRUST | |||
Elvis Costello | |||
Trust | |||
Columbia | |||
The cover of Elvis Costello's new | |||
album, Trust, sports a head and | |||
shoulders shot of him, his eyes peering | |||
over his tinted glasses as if straining to | |||
read a distant wall clock. | |||
It's the same kind of quizzical stare | |||
he used time and again on the Tomor-row | |||
Show recently when Tom Snyder | |||
pursued a line of question worthy of | |||
Don Kirschner. | |||
"Do you love your dad?" asked | |||
Snyder, obviously a bit cautious with | |||
New Wave types since his run-in with | |||
John Lydon last summer. "Sure," | |||
blurted Costello, who then went on to | |||
profess his admiration for Cole Porter, | |||
Rodgers and Hart, and Hank Williams | |||
as well. | |||
To Snyder's immense relief, Cos-tello's | |||
reputation for being remote or | |||
belligerent seemed totally unwar-ranted; | |||
on the contrary, he was the | |||
perfect guest—sincere, responsive | |||
and, in describing his early battles with | |||
NBC and a few record executives, quite | |||
funny. | |||
But all was not peace, love and | |||
understanding. Costello joined the | |||
Attractions on an ice-cold version of | |||
"Watch Your Step" (shot in black and | |||
white, no less) from Trust, and any | |||
notion that his new-found composure | |||
has dulled his wits vanished as he | |||
whispered above Steve Nieve's circling | |||
keyboard about: "broken noses hung | |||
up on the wall/back slapping drinkers | |||
cheering the heavyweight brawl/so | |||
punch drunk they don't stand at all/you | |||
better watch your step." | |||
THE LYRICS to "Watch Your Step" | |||
survive Nick Lowe's opaque production | |||
on Trust better than most. But the | |||
tension—physical, sexual and emotion-al | |||
that swells up inside of songs like | |||
"White Knuckles ('on black and blue | |||
skin')" and "Shot With His Own Gun" | |||
("how does it feel now you've been | |||
undressed/by a man with a mind like | |||
the gutter press") is unmistakable. | |||
Even Costello's stylistic leaps from | |||
the Bo-Diddley-riffed "Lovers Walk" to | |||
the countrified crooning of "Different | |||
, Fingers" to the pop romanticism of | |||
"Clubland" can't mask his intentions. | |||
On Trust, his obsessions with guilt, | |||
anger and loathing ride so close to the | |||
surface you don't need a lyric sheet to | |||
discover them. Compared with other | |||
Lowe productions, Trust also benefits | |||
from a cleaner, shallower mix. At least | |||
one tune, the rockabilly rave up | |||
"Luxembourg," seems as much the | |||
product of Lowe's talents as Costello's. | |||
Steve Nieve's keyboards trace Cos-tello's | |||
witty and sly arrangements | |||
faithfully, alluding, as usual, to a | |||
variety of themes while navigating the | |||
jerky, insistent rhythms laid down by | |||
Bruce Thomas and Pete Thomas. Glen | |||
Tilbrook's vocals and Martin Belmont's | |||
added guitar give the album a fuller, | |||
richer sound than anything Costello has | |||
recorded to date. Yet there's an | |||
urgent, compelling tone to what | |||
Costello has to say that makes you | |||
wonder whether he'll ever really grow | |||
soft. Trust shows no signs of it. | |||
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