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Elvis Costello

Imperial Boredom

With his seventh album 'Imperial Bedroom' Elvis Costello was hailed as being more than just a New Wave rocker With intricate Beatlesque arrangements and unusual sophisticated song structures Costello emerged as fullblown master craftsman Some of the more excitable critics of the day declared him a modern Cole Porter Indeed it's possible to imagine some 1940s torch singer crooning the slinky 'The Long Honeymoon' or the mournful 'Kid About It' but the freeassociative polyrhythmic likes of 'Beyond Belief' and 'Shabby Doll' had never been heard anywhere in pop music before LP 180 Gram vinyl with Download