Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Elvis Costello & The Attractions deliver sharp songs with breathless momentum, rhythmic invention and a band chemistry that makes every turn land.
- Featured on Sundown Sessions
- 2 broadcasts
- First featured
- 19 June 2024
- Last featured
- Sundown Sessions #4 26 June 2024
- Tracks played
- 2
About Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Elvis Costello & The Attractions brought together Costello’s tightly wound songwriting with Steve Nieve’s inventive keyboards, Bruce Thomas’s melodic bass and Pete Thomas’s forceful, flexible drumming. Their performances could pivot from clipped new wave to soul, country and expansive pop without losing their urgency.
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The run from This Year’s Model through Armed Forces, Get Happy!! and Imperial Bedroom shows a band continually stretching its language. “(I Don’t Want to Go to) Chelsea” captures their early sound at its most tense, economical and exhilarating.
Releases Featured on Sundown Sessions
Tracks Featured on Sundown Sessions
- (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea from This Year's Model (1978)Featured on:
- Pump It Up from This Year's Model (1978)Featured on:
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