Elvis Costello has shared a brand new song “Farewell, OK” from his impending album with The Imposters, The Boy Named If, which is ready for unencumber on January 14.
Costello says of “Farewell OK”: “It’s a rock and roll music to start out. An unintended punch, a blurred gaze, a drink an excessive amount of and a kiss goodnight within the tumult of a dancehall. Like many of those primary key tunes, they started with a discussion between a drummer in a basement and a singer within the yard.”
Previous to “Farewell OK”, Costello and The Imposters shared two different songs from the brand new album, “Paint The Pink Rose Blue” and “Magnificent Harm”. The latter got here with a video that includes marionette figures made through Tony Sinnett, who conceived the speculation at the side of Costello himself.
The 13-track The Boy Named If, produced through Costello and Sebastian Krys, features a visitor vocal through Nicole Atkins at the song “My Maximum Sensible Mistake.” The album is Costello’s 6th unencumber since October 2020 and might be to be had on CD, vinyl, cassette, as a obtain, by the use of streaming and in a numbered, signed, 88-page hardback storybook version.
“Magnificent Harm” used to be described through Spin as “organ-thumping,” whilst Stereogum referred to as it “a straight-up rocker that sounds an entire lot like one thing that Costello would possibly’ve made within the overdue 70s. The music has a pounding backbeat, some highest organ interjections from longtime bandmate Steve Nieve, and a lead vocal with some actual snarl in it.”
Cultfollowing.co.united kingdom mentioned the music proved that Costello used to be “again with a chew.” It went on: “He and the Imposters are gearing up for every other setlist of high quality leisure…his vocal powers stay unchallenged and as robust as ever. He adapts with the vocal array now introduced to him to ship a tale of bridging the distance between possibility and praise.”
Pre-order The Boy Named If, launched on January 14.
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