Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom

Artist: Elvis Costello | Label: UMe |  Format: LP  |  Genre: Rock  |  Album Condition: New  | Cover Condition: New, but open 

Elvis Costello 
Imperial Bedroom
UMe - re-issue LP

Remastered from the original master tapes, this release includes "Man Out Of Time," "Beyond Belief," "Shabby Doll," and "Almost Blue." Born Declan Patrick MacManus, British singer/songwriter Elvis Costello began his career as part of London's pub rock scene in the early 1970s and later became associated with the first wave of the British punk and new wave movement of the mid-to-late 1970s. His critically acclaimed debut album was recorded in 1977. Shortly after recording it he formed the Attractions as his backing band. Since then, he has remained one of the most relevant artists of his generation. His music continues to evolve nearly 40 years after he first rose to prominence.
A departure from the artist's previous albums, Imperial Bedroom employs a variety of musical styles, characterised by commentators as new wave, baroque pop, and art rock. Reviewers also found it Beatlesque, and drew comparisons to Tin Pan Alley. Senior AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine regarded the songs an extension of the jazz and pop infatuations explored on Trust. In The New York Times, Palmer summarized, "the music is a sumptuous mélange of pop styles, from Beatles-baroque to Phil Spector Wall-of-Sound to torch-song intimacy. Rolling Stone's Parke Puterbaugh wrote that the album contains a "potent, articulate musical kick" that relates to the Who's Tommy (1969), the Pretty Things' S.F. Sorrow (1968) and the Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967). Biographer David Gouldstone says the production makes the songs sound "spontaneous and immediate",

     includes:
Beyond Belief
Tears Before Bedtime
Shabby Doll
The Long Honeymoon
Man Out of Time
Almost Blue
... And in Every Home
The Loved Ones
Human Hands
Kid About It
Little Savage
Boy with a Problem
Pidgin English
You Little Fool
Town Cryer