COSTELLO ELVIS/MIGHTY LIKE A ROSE

Descripción

MIGHTY LIKE A ROSE IS COSTELLOS 13TH ALBUM. THE MUSIC THE ARRANGEMENTS AND MUSICIANSHIP ARE MUCH MORE SOPHISTICATED AND COMPLEX THAN ON COSTELLOS PREVIOUS ALBUMS MAKING THIS ONE OF IF NOT HIS ONLY ALBUM THAT COULD BE CLASSIFIED AS ART ROCK. MIGHTY LIKE A ROSE BEGINS WITH THE OTHER SIDE OF SUMMER A POWER-POP BEACH BOYS PASTICHE. HURRY DOWN DOOMSDAY (THE BUGS ARE TAKING OVER) IS A CLATTERING PERCUSSIVE MESS REMINISCENT OF SOME OF TOM WAITS MORE INDUSTRIAL-LEANING SONGS (FEAT. MARC RIBOT ON GUITAR). TWO SONGS FROM AN OLDER COLLABORATION WITH PAUL MCCARTNEY PLAYBOY TO A MAN AND A SONG SELECTED AS A SINGLE SO LIKE CANDY. THE TRACK INVASION HIT PARADE FEATURES A TRUMPET SOLO BY COSTELLOS FATHER ROSS MACMANUS.