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| Momofuku | 
 enlarge | Artist: Elvis Costello
Label: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
Category: Music
List Price: £16.99
Buy New: £5.20
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 3175
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 47 minutes
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 001110902
UPC: 602517665835
EAN: 0602517665835
ASIN: B0016KHAY2
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new - Factory sealed - Import edition We ship via first class mail from Miami, Florida.USA
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 I wish I had been at this party! May 14, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
God, don't they sound like they're having a ball on this one!? And it simply all adds to the natural feel of the whole thing - not forced or pretentious. Once again Costello makes a fresh sounding record with some stonking tunes and spot on backing vocals. Effective fuzzy production too! Great to see he hasn't lost his gift for lyric writing - intelligent and incisve words are such a rarity in the rock/pop world. I hope he takes this one on tour 'cos as usual the recordings are brilliant but the live shows just blow you away. And to think all this was just written and recorded in a week - how does he bloody do it? His aim remains true!
 Elvis is Back (again) May 9, 2008
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
How does Elvis Costello sound so fresh after so long? It seems to help to have his band the Imposters (3/4 Attractions) with him and to keep it simple. It would be unfair to characterise this album as a return to new wave but this seems to apply quite well to 'American Gangster Time' which is almost like a 'This Years Model' Attractions session with Steve Nieve really going for it on a Vox Continental Organ. On other tracks the American influence shines through as Elvis creates straight spikey rock with some brilliant backing vocals from his 'friends'. This album is fun, I'm just hoping it has the depth to keep growing like his best stuff. Buy this and if you haven't got the other two Imposters releases 'The Delivery Man' and 'The River In Reverse' these are also well worth the money.
"...a limited, primitive kind of man" May 9, 2008
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
This may not be the return to Vintage Costello that older fans have been waiting for, but it's not far off. It's definitely his best album since Blood & Chocolate (although any Costello release always has something to recommend it). Significantly on this one he seems to be having FUN. Bashed out over a week in February our Elvis seems to be rejuvanated by having the kids round (both his new twin boys and the musical scamps who gatecrash his party), which include Jenny Lewis and her beau Johnathan Rice as well drummer Pete Thomas's drumming daughter Tennessee.
Right from the word go Costello is in prime in-your-face form with No Hiding Place and particularly American Gangster Time (this one especially features a classic Steve Nieve '60's organ line that'll send you right back to Pump It Up). Over the following 10 tracks Costello moves from rockers, to country ballads to a touchingly autobiographical My Three Sons and finally to Go Away with a 96 Tears-like organ track that you'll be trying to get out of your head long after you've heard it.
On Drum and Bone he declares himself "a limited, primitive kind of man" and to some extent that's reflected in the music here - tracks that make you want to stomp and sway rather than sit and ponder. Lyrically though he's as astute as ever. "I'd rather go blind for speaking my mind" he says on American Gangster Time and so he does time after time.
Off the pop radar for some time now Momofuku probably won't change this, but for those of us in the know it's a time for celebration - Elvis is in the building.
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