Look Now

About Look Now

Look Now is the 30th studio album by singer-songwriter Elvis Costello and his band, The Imposters and was his first studio album in five years. Costello wrote and produced a large majority of the album himself, with co-production help from Sebastian Krys, a Latin Grammy Producer of the Year in 2007 and 2015. He co-wrote a new track with Carole King ("Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter") and worked with Burt Bacharach on three other songs. Costello told NPR that it is the "uptown pop record with a little swagger" that he had been wanting to make for 20 years. They named the album one of their best new albums of the week during its week of release. AllMusic describes that the album "often feels like a cross between Imperial Bedroom and Painted from Memory, Costello's 1998 collaboration with Burt Bacharach. This was thought to have been due by Bacharach co-wrote three tracks with Costello," adding, that it "isn't rock & roll so much as it's pop that blends the craft of classic Brill Building tunes of the '60s with the narrative maturity of classic Broadway musicals and the sort of ballads that were once the purview of classic jazz vocalists."The Associated Press, in their review, points out how the album—like Anna Karenina—reads like a series of lamentations of various characters. The collaboration with King was a project 20 years in the making. The two forged a friendship over eating sushi together in Manhattan, before finally making music together more »