CD Elvis Costello - This Year's Model (Duplo) (Importado)

This Year's Model is packaged with a 28-page booklet that includes rare photos and printed song lyrics. For his second album, Costello fine-tuned his aesthetic by abandoned the California studio cat accompanists of his debut for the more aggressive, quirky and very British Attractions, who would virtually define EC´s sound over the next several years. Where My Aim Is True highlighted Costello's rootsy influences (the Band, etc.), This Year's Model wholeheartedly embraces the "new wave" out-with-the-old mindset, favoring tightly-wound ferocity over back-porch-isms. Irresistibly catchy, in a twitchy, neurotic, white-knuckled way, This Year's Model L is Costello at his edgiest. The classic "Pump It Up" pummels the listener with garage-band organ, pounding drums, and Highway 61 Revisited-style ranting. "Radio, Radio" turned into something of an anti-authoritarian anthem for Costello. The snaky guitar and reggae-tinged drums of "I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea" complement Costello's verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown vocal performance nicely. Come to think of it, so does nearly everything else here.