Elvis Costello-Hey Clockface-CD-FLAC-2020-THEVOiD

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 Info   
     Artist  | Elvis Costello
     Title   | Hey Clockface
     Genre   | Rock                                 Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 49:52
     Label   | Concord Records                      Store   | 2020
     Catalog | 00888072202856                       Rip     | 2021
     Bitrate | 729  kbps                            Size    | 274.62 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. Revolution #49                                              2:41
     02. No Flag                                                     3:56
     03. They're Not Laughing At Me Now                              4:26
     04. Newspaper Pane                                              4:10
     05. I Do (Zula's Song)                                          3:49
     06. We Are All Cowards Now                                      3:36
     07. Hey Clockface / How Can You Face Me?                        2:56
     08. The Whirlwind                                               3:17
     09. Hetty O'Hara Confidential                                   4:14
     10. The Last Confession Of Vivian Whip                          2:59
     11. What Is It That I Need That I Don't Already Have?           3:46
     12. Radio Is Everything                                         4:25
     13. I Can't Say Her Name                                        2:57
     14. Byline                                                      2:40
 Notes  
     Elvis Costello arrived as a sneering spitfire, the smartest and meanest
     singer/songwriter in the first wave of 1970s British punk backed by The
     Attractions, a band who could match his ferocity. Soon, Costello galloped
     away from the loud fast rules of punk, demonstrating his musical and verbal
     facility with "Armed Forces", a 1979 album that contained "Oliver's Army",
     "Accidents Will Happen," and his cover of Nick Lowe's "(What's So Funny
     About) Peace, Love and Understanding", a trio of singles that turned into
     New Wave standards.
     "Hey Clockface" arrived quickly on the heels of "Look Now", but where that
     2018 album seemed constructed as classicist Costello, drawing upon his
     strengths as a melodicist and the muscle of his regular backing band The
     Imposters, this 2020 affair feels as if it was designed to surprise. It
     comes into focus quite slowly, with reeds and strings murmuring in a quiet
     drone before Costello launches into the spoken word of "Revolution #49".
     The spell is broken in a flurry of gnarled guitars that usher in "No Flag",
     a transition that establishes how Hey Clockface doesn't follow any
     particular path. Apart from the slight emphasis on poetry - it surfaces
     again toward the end of the album on "Radio Is Everything," a track
     destined to be played in the dead hours of a starless night - none of the
     twists on the album are necessarily a new trick from Costello, but the its
     execution makes every new turn feel slightly surprising, occasionally
     jarring.
     Much of this has as much to do with the sequencing of the record as it does
     the performances themselves. The dense, clever boogie of "Hetty O'Hara
     Confidential" is followed by the torch song "The Last Confession of Vivian
     Whip," and the ominous crawl of "We Are All Cowards Now" is countered by a
     boisterous update of Fats Waller on the album's title track. The parts fit
     together, just in ways the ear isn't quite accustomed to hearing, and the
     same is true of many of the arrangements on "Hey Clockface".
     The quieter moments require a listener to concentrate, then they're blown
     away by the cacophony, lured back in by a generous bit of old-fashioned
     merriment. It shows Costello's mastery of mood and storytelling, the kind
     of skill he's acquired over the course of a long career, but the key to
     "Hey Clockface" is that these techniques are applied to a record that's as
     restless as anything Costello made in his younger days.

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