Elvis Costello - The Delivery Man & Il Signo

[DudeAsInCool]

Over the past decade and a half, the man who calls himself Elvis Costello has proudly displayed a musical restlessness that borders on promiscuity: In between "proper" albums like Brutal Youth and When I Was Cruel, he has collaborated with an array of musicians whose own releases are rarely shelved in the rock section of your local record store. Often these pairings are one-album stands, as with The Brodsky Quartet (The Juliet Letters), Anne Sofie Von Otter (For the Stars), or smoky barroom jazz (North). Only occasionally has Costello allowed a collaboration to blossom into a creative relationship. He's recorded two records with Burt Bacharach (Painted from Memory and The Sweetest Punch, with Bill Frisell), and laid a foundation for continued collaborative songwriting with his wife, Diana Krall.

There is, admittedly, an integrity to this ambitious quest:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-revie...-il-sogno.shtml

[Potato]

I ran out last Tuesday to buy them... only to find that I could only buy "The Delivery Man" because the stupid store didn't have the other one. Now I'm poor and have to wait to buy that and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" on DVD which comes out tomorrow. I still like his older stuff better.

[method77]

I also like his older stuff better but I always enjoy whatever he makes.

I also considered his name to be the coolest around