Mention of ReReReIssues and North
Windy City Media Group: Earlier this year, the expanded reissues of Get Happy, Trust and Punch The Clock, by Elvis Costello and The Attractions CDs were released. Now, a few months later, North (Deutsche Grammophon), the new Elvis Costello CD, has arrived. An assured and mature 11-track disc, the songs, in arrangements that favor jazz and cabaret settings, sound as familiar and lived in as the standards from the American popular songbook. On nine of the albumís 11 songs, Attraction Steve Nieve accompanies Costello on piano. On ìStill,î Costello is reunited with The Brodsky Quartet, with whom he recorded the sumptuous The Juliet Letters 10 years ago. But the compass remains pointed at Costello, whose dramatic renderings of songs include ìYou Left Me In The Dark,î ìSomeone Took The Words Away,î ìWhen Did I Stop Dreaming?,î ìLet Me Tell You About Her,î ìCan You Be True?,î and the remarkably subtle ìWhen It Sings.î