“Having reinstated his rock & roll credentials last year with When I Was Cruel — not to mention getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — Elvis Costello characteristically makes a dramatic stylistic turn on North. The album is filled with haunted, piano-centered ballads and elegant string and horn arrangements that tease […]”
“Few musicians have made such successful careers as Elvis Costello by confounding expectations. His epic discography seems to dutifully cover virtually every genre (excluding hip-hop, thankfully): From the ska-inflected wit of his debut, *My Aim Is True*, to the Byrdsian rock bombast of *Armed Forces*, to *King of America*'s stripped down Americana, Costello has painted himself as something of a re”
