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Recorded in Hollywood, New York City and Vancouver, British Columbia, by Costello, vocals and guitar, Steve Nieve, keyboards, Davey Faragher, bass, and Pete Thomas, drums, this is the first Imposters album since 2008's Momofuku.
Look Now finds 63-year-old Costello making new music for the first time since Wise Up Ghost, his 2013 collaboration with American hip-hop group The Roots.
Costello sensed it was time to return to the studio on last summer's Imperial Bedroom & Other Chambers tour of the United States, when he realised the power and musicality of The Imposters had "never really been fully captured on one record."
"I knew if we could make an album with the scope of Imperial Bedroom and some of the beauty and emotion of Painted From Memory, we would really have something," he says.
Most of the songs were written solely by Costello, but Don’t Look Now and Photographs Can Lie were co-written with Burt Bacharach, who makes a guest appearance leading The Imposters from the piano for those two ballads. Bacharach also contributed to another number, "He’s Given Me Things," while "Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter" was written with Carole King.
Costello also co-produced the album. "I had all of the orchestrations and vocal parts in my head or on the page before we played a note, so it was essential that I worked closely with Steve Nieve to maintain the light and space in the arrangements and allow him to shine," he says.
Look Now will be available as a 12-track standard album and a 16-song deluxe edition. The track listing is: "Under Lime"; "Don’t Look Now"; "Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter"; "Stripping Paper"; "Unwanted Number"; "I Let The Sun Go Down"; "Mr. & Mrs. Hush"; "Photographs Can Lie"; "Dishonor The Stars"; "Suspect My Tears"; "Why Won’t Heaven Help Me?" and "He’s Given Me Things," bolstered on the deluxe version by "Isabelle In Tears"; "Adieu Paris (L’Envie Des Étoiles)"; "The Final Mrs. Curtain" and "You Shouldn’t Look At Me That Way."
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