Look Now
Joined by his Imposters in the studio for the first time in a decade, the silver-tongued songwriter turns tunes from abandoned musicals into a surprisingly cohesive record.
Always prone to dipping into the full gamut of traditional genres, Costello has ventured ever further from his snarling new wave roots
In 2017, Costello staged a concert tour in which he re-imagined the songs from that LP, and while that may or may not have put those tunes and their style back into his mind, 2018's Look Now certainly is an extension of the mature and literate pop songwriting that he first fully embraced in that material.
With its mix of rock and balladry, Look Now strikes a fine balance between the lively and the pensive.