“One of the naughtier things Elvis Costello devised for his last album was calling the centerpiece "When I Was Cruel, Pt. 2" and relegating "Pt. 1" to a Japanese-only B-side. Karma's caught up with him, though, seizing him with a prolonged fit of generosity which has culminated in *Cruel Smile*: a full-length companion to *When I Was Cruel*, offering a hodgepodge of sketches, elaboration, proposed ”
