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Each new Costello album is an advance and a consolidation. On last year's Get Happy, Costello delivered a Stax soul-in-fluenced, bottom heavy sound, rough and dense. On Trust, he's recorded with a cleaner mix, but with the same brilliant array of styles, sounds, and voices, from grandiose pop to rockabilly primitive and cocktail lounge cool. All of this with new lyrical installments in the Costello world view, sardonicism and bottled-up passion, the stuttered rage and ironic philosophizing. With tangled and witty wordplay Costello has made himself the most distinguished lyricist since the early Bob Dylan, with lyrics worthy of James Joyce and Cole Porter. Costello has come along with the New Wave, but he stands head and shoulders above the rest, each release a testament to a new genius.
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