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Elvis Costello: National Ransom – review

(Universal)Each song on Elvis Costello's sprawling new album, his 11th in 10 years and featuring some 30 musicians, is situated in a particular time and place – from Utopia, Kansas, in 1915 to present-day Wall Street. The specificity has a richly theatrical effect: in "Jimmie Standing in the Rain", we vividly feel the exhaustion of a failed music-hall singer getting drenched at a Lancashire train station. To criticise an overabundance of scenes and musical styles feels like quibbling with gene...

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17:46 on October 22 2010

National Ransom: Elvis Costello, CD review

The Telegraph — National Ransom's Elvis Costello lacks focus. Rating: * * * more info

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23:05 on October 23 2010

Elvis Costello: National Ransom – review

Guardian Music — (Universal)Each song on Elvis Costello's sprawling new album, his 11th in 10 years and featuring some 30 musicians, is situated in a particular time and place – from Ut... more info

Elvis Costello