Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel
Label: Island
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Elvis Costello fans have I got great news for you, Elvis returns in rare form with "When I was Cruel".  This album proves that even after all these years, Elvis hasn't lost his touch and this desperately anticipated album should satisfy even the most diehard fans. 

 It's all here, the melodic sensibilities that put Elvis on the map, the creative genius that we have come to expect from his songwriting and music that flirts with the edges of many genres of music. Sure Elvis has given us some good stuff over the past few years with his collaboration with other artists but that special something he can only deliver on his own was missing from those projects, but now the wait is over. 

Let's face few artists who have a career as long as Elvis has can still produce work that is on the same level as the early work that made them stars. With this new album what you get are fifteen tracks of pure Elvis. So there is hope for music in the year 2002, hats off to yet another Liverpool lad who made good!