As you might already have guessed, this being an Elvis Costello (and the Attractions) album, there is much more blood than chocolate. You just knew that the self-deprecating, almost apologetic tone of King of America was not something Declan could keep up for any length of time.
Blood and Chocolate is the Imposter's most embittered work to date, leaving Imperial Bedroon and Goodbye Cruel World far below on the venometer. Musically, it's the closest he has dared come to rock 'n' roll since My Aim Is True which, coincidentally, was also produced by Nick Lowe.
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