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Elvis Costellos Imperial Bedroom is a shape-shifting masterpiece of chamber-pop, folk, punk rage, Beatlesesque earworms, jazz-leaning standards, and pysch rock.

Elvis Costello has had an illustrious career. Now 31 albums in, Costello isn't slowing down and here is every Elvis Costello album, ranked

14 May 1991 Music is rife with artists whose stylistic changes invoke ire from fans. In 1965, Bob Dylan angered the purists when he plugged in an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival; Miles Davis controversially embraced a rock-leaning type of jazz fusion in the late 1960s; and in the early 1990s, Elvis Costello grew a beard and released Mighty Like a Rose.  For Costello—who careened onto the punk/new wave scene in 1977 with coke bottle glasses, a slim-fitting suit, and attitude to ...

40 Years Ago: Elvis Costello Gives Listeners His ‘Trust’ Goodbye Cruel World, Trust, released on Jan. 23 of that year, falls somewhere in the middle A varied, occasionally intricate Attractions record released amidst his critical high-water marks, it has both its detractors and staunch supporters. Indeed, at various points in the years since its release, Costello himself has straddled both sides of the critical fence. Part of this might have to do with the circumstances of its recording, a...