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<center>''' Elvis Costello and the Attractions | <center>''' Elvis Costello and the Attractions ''' / Imperial Bedroom </center> | ||
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You expect more from an Elvis Costello album, and on '' | You expect more from an Elvis Costello album, and on ''Imperial Bedroom'' you certainly get it. The 15 songs here are so densely written and tightly arranged that the slightest alteration would probably cause the record's contents to fly apart like an overwound mainspring. | ||
Bouncing back from his ambitious but indifferently received country album, '' | Bouncing back from his ambitious but indifferently received country album, ''Almost Blue'', Costello has returned to pop with a vengeance. The music on ''Imperial Bedroom'' sounds like something you might hear on rock radio. Costello puts it to the service of his distinctive lyrics, though, transmuting accepted song structures in the process. The result is his most baroque album since ''[[Armed Forces]]'', with a fascinating but intimidating sheen. | ||
It may also be his most unified LP yet. As the title (with typically Costellian overtones of dominance and repression) suggests, ''Imperial Bedroom'' is monomaniacally concerned with love, or at least romance. The 5 musical case histories presented herein compendium of backfired emotional relationships: She-hates-him ("[[Beyond Belief]]"), they-hate-each-other ("[[Tears Before Bedtime|Tears before Bedtime]]"), they-hate-each-other-and-themselves ("[[Shabby Doll]]"), etc. Whether Costello is still "angry" or not is irrelevant. He ''is'' restless, which is almost always more attention-getting than doing a James Taylor. | It may also be his most unified LP yet. As the title (with typically Costellian overtones of dominance and repression) suggests, ''Imperial Bedroom'' is monomaniacally concerned with love, or at least romance. The 5 musical case histories presented herein compendium of backfired emotional relationships: She-hates-him ("[[Beyond Belief]]"), they-hate-each-other ("[[Tears Before Bedtime|Tears before Bedtime]]"), they-hate-each-other-and-themselves ("[[Shabby Doll]]"), etc. Whether Costello is still "angry" or not is irrelevant. He ''is'' restless, which is almost always more attention-getting than doing a James Taylor. | ||
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