Review
Elvis Costello
All This Useless Beauty
(Rhino)
Release Date: 01/01/1996 12:00
Reviewed by Douglas Wolk
The Attractions’ final bow. There are flashes of their old fire, but also of weariness. The repertoire is mostly autumnal, regretful songs Costello wrote for other singers, with lyrics in the voices of characters questioning their lives.

Download: “You Bowed Down,” “The Other End of the Telescope”
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