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3/29/2022 Today's Album: "Imperial Bedroom" by Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This album is pretty frustrating. The first 9 or so tracks show off the general theme of this track list, which is that some songs have a really fun energy that matches Elvis's blatantly horrible vocals. Whenever this guy has enough energy to sing a tight verse and chorus, it feels really fun and the 70s rock inspired instrumentals do numbers to lift up the lyrics in the songs mentioned in "Highlights", the other songs have just this unlistenable cheep feel to them, with each line feeling a little to long and all of the lyrics really bogging down what are admittingly decent instrumental performances. After these first 9 tracks, the view count on spotify really tanks and I can see why. It's pretty much more of the unlistenable stuff from the first half. Overall, I really wanted to like this project given some of the more promising tracks, but it just honestly should not be Elvis Costello leading this band. He is not a talented enough vocal performer to pull these ideas off in a listenable way. Score: 3/10 Just not very good Highlights: Tears Before Bedtime, Almost Blue, Human Hands,
Not my cup of tea
this is pretty annoying from beginning to end 1.5
Not my jam
Man out of time
one nice song, but couldn't really finish any of the other ones, definitely not my thing
Not for me