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Music Review: Elvis Costello’s Get Happy

Published Jun 21, 2011 By HD Living

By Michael Fremer/MusicAngle

While American soul music— northern urban and southern rural—and UK-via-the-Caribbean-derived Ska course through the veins of the fourth Elvis Costello and the Attractions album, the flesh thankfully remains white limey.

The album may be a one off diversion from the band’s natural creative path but it doesn’t go off the cliff. The drum-centric arrangements are relatively spare and to the rhythmic point. Guitars accent but don’t dominate the landscape.

If you don’t listen carefully to “High Fidelity” you might not even notice its Detroit roots. Even the cover of Sam and Dave’s “I Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down” doesn’t outwardly sound like something emanating from Stax/Volt. If you don’t pay attention to Elvis’s superb overdubbed background singing on the frantic “Love For Tender” you might not recognize the classic soul gestures. Most obvious are the Ska rhythms and echoey guitar production of “B Movie” and “Human Touch” and the Nashville melodrama in “Motel Matches.”

Read the complete review here at Music Angle.