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<center><h3> Brutal Youth </h3></center> | <center><h3> Brutal Youth </h3></center> | ||
<center>''' Elvis Costello | <center>''' Elvis Costello </center> | ||
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The resulting fifteen songs may not be perfect, but nor can they be termed brutal, While they lack the immediacy and energy that made Costello popular fifteen years ago, they constitute a healthy recovery from Elvis' acute case of tedium, marked by last year's string quarteted ''The Juliet Letters''. | The resulting fifteen songs may not be perfect, but nor can they be termed brutal, While they lack the immediacy and energy that made Costello popular fifteen years ago, they constitute a healthy recovery from Elvis' acute case of tedium, marked by last year's string quarteted ''The Juliet Letters''. | ||
''Brutal Youth'' sounds like an Elvis Costello record, with his cutting vocal style and weathered pop sensibilities adding an air of familiarity to the album. Granted, there are no songs comparable to "Pump | ''Brutal Youth'' sounds like an Elvis Costello record, with his cutting vocal style and weathered pop sensibilities adding an air of familiarity to the album. Granted, there are no songs comparable to "Pump It Up," "Alison," or even "Veronica" even, but the tunes are highly listenable, enjoyable. | ||
Listen for "Clown Strike," and "Kinder Murder" for upbeat tunes and "You Tripped at Every Step" for more melancholy music. | Listen for "Clown Strike," and "Kinder Murder" for upbeat tunes and "You Tripped at Every Step" for more melancholy music. | ||
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The greatest drawback to ''Brutal Youth'' is its lack of stand out tracks. causing the album to drag towards the end. The above three tracks are all within the first six songs, simply because the music fades to "more of the same" by the bottom ten. | The greatest drawback to ''Brutal Youth'' is its lack of stand out tracks. causing the album to drag towards the end. The above three tracks are all within the first six songs, simply because the music fades to "more of the same" by the bottom ten. | ||
If pulling the album on and doing something other than actively listening is your thing, then ''Brutal Youth'' will more than satisfy. | If pulling the album on and doing something other than actively listening is your thing, then ''Brutal Youth'' will more than satisfy. If, however, you want cutting songs and plan to live and die by your albums, dig out your vinyl copy of ''My Aim Is True'' and you'll really be satisfied. | ||
Elvis has lost his angry young man approach and his melancholy old man look is just | Elvis has lost his angry young man approach and his melancholy old man look is just beginning. | ||
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