ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS ‘The Boy Named If’

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It’s been a busy 12 months for Elvis Costello: he’s released the album Hey Clockface, a French EP based on it, and a re-worked, Spanish version of his 1978 album This Year’s Model. And now he’s back with The Boy Named If (And Other Children’s Stories).

Like most artists of a certain age, Costello tends to refer to his previous musical output, and The Boy Named If encompasses many eras of Costello’s work.

There’s the baroque pop of Imperial Bedroom on ‘The Difference’, there’s the passion of Blood And Chocolate on ‘What If I Can’t Give You Anything But Love’, you could almost put Paint The Red Rose Blue on ‘Painted From Memory’, and My Most Beautiful Mistake on ‘King Of America’.

But while everything here echoes its maker’s past, it all sounds new. The Boy Named If arrives with a burst of early punkish Costello and the fully charged Imposters and is filled with a series of sharp and tricky songs.

He describes his recent work as “records that are happening right now”. And he’s not wrong.