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'''He can be work, but give the old so-and-so an even break — he just made another great album.<br> | |||
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"I wish that I didn't hate you — least, not as much as I do": " | ''"I wish that I didn't hate you — least, not as much as I do"'': "Needle Time"'s rancid opening line speaks for both Costello's unquenchable narkiness and this album's prevailing itch to get stuck in. Recorded in Oxford, Mississippi, and unrelated to last year's somewhat Sondheimy ''North'', it mood-swings between heartfelt country-soul and the rudest rut-and-grunt swamp rock. | ||
The melancholy depth of " | The melancholy depth of "Country Darkness," "Heart Shaped Bruise" and "Nothing Clings Like Ivy" are simply the best of one familiar Costello. But the roiling, tin-shack clamour of "Button My Lip," "Bedlam" and "There's A Story In Your Voice" (a{{nb}}howling row of a duet with a pissed-off Lucinda Williams) lurches away into an uncharted, dirty, violent, emotional wasteland. | ||
So: songs terrific, band sensational, and — big plus — Costello's voice late-developing way beyond that pinched whine into an instrument of substance and character. | So: songs terrific, band sensational, and — big plus — Costello's voice late-developing way beyond that pinched whine into an instrument of substance and character. | ||
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{{tags}}[[The Delivery Man]] {{-}} [[North]] {{-}} [[Stephen Sondheim]] {{-}} [[Needle Time]] {{-}} [[Country Darkness]] {{-}} [[Heart Shaped Bruise]] {{-}} [[Nothing Clings Like Ivy]] {{-}} [[Button My Lip]] {{-}} [[Bedlam]] {{-}} [[There's A Story In Your Voice]] {{-}} [[Lucinda Williams]] | |||
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'''Mojo, No. 131, October 2004 | '''Mojo, No. 131, October 2004 | ||
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[[Phil Sutcliffe]] reviews ''[[The Delivery Man]]. | [[Phil Sutcliffe]] reviews ''[[The Delivery Man]]''. | ||
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