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ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS  "the boy named if"  cd,  2022

his thirty-second album
i could never keep up with his output, from looking at Wiki i think i have around twenty of them...
i can never decide where to put his albums neither because they are often quite eclectic and this one is no different...
there's 1950s jazz/blues, country/folk, new wave/post-punk and straight up ballads...
a welcome return to form after a relatively weak last decade (IMO of course)....
this album is classic Costello and stacks up well against his back catalogue of 70s/80s material and the chart placing of #6 in the UK marking his first top-10 album since the mid 1990s reflects that, but yet again, he fails to chart just about everywhere else (stupid world) and not so stupid Americans because it did scrape into the top-200 over "the pond"...
I LIKE THIS ALBUM

1:   farewell ok  **
2:   the boy named if  **
3:   penelope halfpenny  ***
4:   the difference  **
5:   what if i cant give you anything but love  ***
6:   paint the red rose blue  ***
7:   mistook me for a friend  **
8:   my most beautiful mistake  ***
9:   magnificent hurt  **
10: the man you love to hate  **
11: the death of magic thinking  **
12: trick out the truth  **
13: mr crescent  **

3s -  4
2s -  9
1s -  0

rating:  2.3

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