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''"The feeling is of effortlessness but at the same time, as always, Costello's songs are little pellets of pent up emotion. These are the two great extremes that Costello is finally, distinctly delineating in his songs. Their gentleness and their fury." | ''"The feeling is of effortlessness but at the same time, as always, Costello's songs are little pellets of pent up emotion. These are the two great extremes that Costello is finally, distinctly delineating in his songs. Their gentleness and their fury." | ||
So he thought and it is true that ''Imperial Bedroom'' sees Costello reach some kind of peak of peaks. The key words are simply imperiousness and sleepiness; it's as if Costello following that, as it were. objective C & W jaunt, can now, almost step outside his music and notice its free flowing ease, almost wicked in a way and practically dangerous. | So he thought and it is true that ''Imperial Bedroom'' sees Costello reach some kind of peak of peaks. The key words are simply imperiousness and sleepiness; it's as if Costello following that, as it were. objective C & W jaunt, can now, almost step outside his music and notice its free-flowing ease, almost wicked in a way and practically dangerous. | ||
The trouble is, you can just picture Costello in a safe groove, with the flick of his coy wrist turning out "Man Out Of Time" (the great song here); the Costello auto-pilot. But he avoids this by the very skin of his punning, parodying, teeth and it's why his music is so ... great and kind and loving, despite the constant vituperative attacks. | The trouble is, you can just picture Costello in a safe groove, with the flick of his coy wrist turning out "Man Out Of Time" (the great song here); the Costello auto-pilot. But he avoids this by the very skin of his punning, parodying, teeth and it's why his music is so ... great and kind and loving, despite the constant vituperative attacks. | ||
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Costello is becoming very self-conscious about his art in his old age. His lyrical twists and spins are now almost ornamental in effect, if not in initial inspiration. He knows a good line when he ... knows it. | Costello is becoming very self-conscious about his art in his old age. His lyrical twists and spins are now almost ornamental in effect, if not in initial inspiration. He knows a good line when he ... knows it. | ||
There is an arch feeling about this LP, as if he's watching over it and the reactions it'll provoke. (That jumbled up title is surely done purposely for scribes such as your present one | There is an arch feeling about this LP, as if he's watching over it and the reactions it'll provoke. (That jumbled up title is surely done purposely for scribes such as your present one — why does he keep running away from us when some of us might be able to help him?) | ||
''Imperial Bedroom'' is the album where Costello nearly turns in on himself ''too'' sharply. There's always been a dryness about his work that has maybe been the chief cause of its latent failure to stave off indifference. Maybe it's his voice (a bit sharply samey), perhaps he's too much to gulp down for the normally jaded listener. But at any rate on this late and very great LP, Costello used the absurdist effects of muddiness and that drifting feeling to his own advantage. It's his major theme here. | ''Imperial Bedroom'' is the album where Costello nearly turns in on himself ''too'' sharply. There's always been a dryness about his work that has maybe been the chief cause of its latent failure to stave off indifference. Maybe it's his voice (a bit sharply samey), perhaps he's too much to gulp down for the normally jaded listener. But at any rate on this late and very great LP, Costello used the absurdist effects of muddiness and that drifting feeling to his own advantage. It's his major theme here. | ||
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