Elvis Costello is out with “Hey Clockface/How Can You Face Me,' which sounds nothing like its predecessors
The initial tracks released from— the pent-up “No Flag,” the bump-in-the-night character study “Hetty O’Hara Confidential” and the pop-noir “We Are All Cowards Now” — were recorded in Helsinki. But now comes the erstwhile title track, “Hey Clockface/How Can You Face Me,” which sounds nothing like its predecessors.this past February, pre-global pandemic, the song finds Costello backed by a small jazz ensemble dubbed Le Quintette Saint Germain.
Whether it was the setting, the musicians or the croissants, Costello sounds comparatively light-hearted and frisky here. As if he were sitting in with a small jazz ensemble in a cramped, smokey club in Paris, he slips into one of his character roles — a man recovering from a gone-missing lover — and vents at a timepiece on his wall: “You said you‘d be a friend to me/But time is just my enemy/And it is hurting me so.
Toward the end, the track also quotes from the Thirties romper “How Can You Face Me?” by the singer, pianist and songwriter ; both songs feature a similar arrangement. Enjoy it while you can ; Costello will no doubt be on to another radically different adventure the next time around — or maybe even the next track unveiled from the album.
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