Elvis Costello - This Year's Model (Dig) (Spkg)
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Artist: Elvis CostelloEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-05-01
Music Label: Hip-O Records
Soundtracks:
- No Action
- This Year's Girl
- The Beat
- Pump It Up
- Little Triggers
- You Belong To Me
- Hand In Hand
- (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
- Lip Service
- Living In Paradise
- Lipstick Vogue
- Night Rally
- Radio, Radio
Music reviews of This Year's Model (Dig) (Spkg)
Music Review: Model of perfection
Rating: 5 Stars
Many people seem to regard This Year's Model as the best Costello album out there. I agree with most of this opinion, but naming it "his best" neglects his other important works. Elvis Costello's first 6 albums (excluding Almost Blue) work as an all-for-one/one-for-all outfit. But even so, I'd personally place This Year's Model as the initial masterpiece that sets the wheels of Costello's career in motion.
After his first record, Costello came up with a set of songs that were even faster, more aggressive and cerebral. This Year's Model could be represented as Elvis' epitome of anger, and his most "New Wave" album out there. This is also the first album which gives full credit to "Elvis Costello and The Attractions", the most explosive combo to come out of the pub rock scene.
If there is something that this album lacks is a passive mood; every song is bold, outspoken brutallity in the most fashionable way. The first four songs show off these characteristics; weather it's the smashing feeling of "Pump It Up" or the flow of rythm in "This Year's Girl".
Initially, I felt that the album started to mellow at the beginning of the second half - maybe because of the great punch the first half of the record gives off. But if you get to listen to it a couple of times completely, all of the songs get stuck in your memory. "Lip Service" and "Lipstick Vogue" are great examples of this.
The instrumentation of This Year's Model is flawless; loud but precise guitars, mood setting drums and the best use of moog/organ synthesizer I've ever heard in a rock album. The lyrics also come at their finests; the rhymes are mesmerazing and accurate. There is not one element of this album that I do not enjoy except maybe the song "Little Triggers" which I usually skip.
As any other good album, it invites you to listen to it over and over again; it has the perfect timing for it to be memorable but not tedious. It also leaves you hungry for more Elvis Costello material, which as I stated on the beginning of this review, you are going to require!
Description of This Year's Model (Dig) (Spkg)
THIS YEAR'S MODEL is packaged with a 28-page booklet that includes rare photos and printed song lyrics. For his second album, Costello fine-tuned his aesthetic by abandoned the California studio cat accompanists of his debut for the more aggressive, quirky and very British Attractions, who would virtually define EC's sound over the next several years. Where MY AIM IS TRUE highlighted Costello's rootsy influences (the Band, etc.), THIS YEAR'S MODEL wholeheartedly embraces the "new wave" out-with-the-old mindset, favoring tightly-wound ferocity over back-porch-isms.Irresistibly catchy, in a twitchy, neurotic, white-knuckled way, THIS YEAR'S MODEL is Costello at his edgiest. The classic "Pump It Up" pummels the listener with garage-band organ, pounding drums, and HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED-style ranting. "Radio, Radio" turned into something of an anti-authoritarian anthem for Costello. The snaky guitar and reggae-tinged drums of "I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea" complement Costello's verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown vocal performance nicely. Come to think of it, so does nearly everything else here.
With his second album, Elvis Costello firmly established himself as one of rock's--not just punk/new wave's--premier singer-songwriters. Building on the promise of his '77 debut, My Aim Is True, Costello put together a backing touring trio, the Attractions (keyboardist Steve Nieve, bassist Bruce Thomas, and drummer Pete Thomas), and their versatility helped Costello define himself as a punk-fuelled power-pop force. Sporting influences ranging from Bob Dylan (the stream-of-consciousness "Pump It Up") to Burt Bacharach (the Dusty Springfield-worthy "Little Triggers"), this '78-released collection also features such righteously angry anthems as the anti-conformist "This Year's Girl," and the anti-MOR classic, "Radio Radio." --Billy Altman
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