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North | 
 enlarge | Artist: Elvis Costello
Category: Music
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Rating:  59 reviews
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 602498096567
EAN: 0602498096567
ASIN: B0000BXGCD
Release Date: September 2, 2003
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Condition: new sealed stock
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| Tracks:
| • | You Left Me in the Dark | | • | Someone Took the Words Away | | • | When Did I Stop Dreaming? | | • | You Turned to Me | | • | Fallen | | • | When It Sings | | • | Still | | • | Let Me Tell You About Her | | • | Can You Be True? | | • | When Green Eyes Turn Blue | | • | I'm in the Mood Again |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Cabaret singing is one of the most venerable of pop idioms, yet one fraught with some paradoxical pitfalls: betraying emotional candor, yet not the studied artifice of the singer. And while Elvis Costello has a long and successful flirtation with the style, he's seldom delivered it with the consistently stripped-down directness he's mustered here. Costello claims the alum's songs bubbled forth nearly fully-formed over the winter of `02-`03, and indeed they often ebb and flow with an unpredictable fluidity that seems to reflect the songwriter's subconscious mind (to the point of occasionally conjuring fleeting, almost spectral melodic references from his beloved pop standards) at its most creatively naked. For an artist who's long prided himself on the willful literacy and challenging symbolism of his lyrics, the transparency of his romantic musings here is often startling. Likely inspired by an arc of emotional change in his own life (Costello hints that the bittersweet "You Left Me in the Dark" and hopefulness "I'm in the Mood Again" don't bookend the album by coincidence), a subtext of difficult romantic communication also surfaces repeatedly on tracks like the dramatic "Someone Took the Words Away" and lovely "When it Sings," while the neo-classicism of "Still" reunites Costello with the Brodsky Quartet in arguably the album's most traditional, sophisticated moment. Backed by Steve Nieve's spare, haunting piano (the instrument the songwriter composed the songs at; it's the most guitar-free album of his career), the drums of Peter Erskine, and double-bass of Mike Formanek, with only the most economic of orchestral flourishes, the mood is decidedly autumnal, Costello's gently quavering voice pushed into the spotlight as never before, a musical tightrope walk whose sublime execution seldom belies its conceptual audacity. --Jerry McCulley
Album Description
UK special limited edition of 2003 album features 12 tracks including 1 bonus track, 'Impatience', plus a bonus DVD featuring an interview with Elvis plus three promotional videos, 'Fallen', 'North', & 'Still'. Universal.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Please turn off the endless vibrato November 8, 2005
golden tiger edward (Atlanta, GA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
While Elvis reigns near the top of my "Fave Songwriters" list and North certainly contains some sleek writing...I just can't (as another reviewer also noted) get past the constant vibrato ol' MacManus surrounds his voice with on...gasp...EVERY song. With each new album, his use of vibrato has risen from mildly amsuing to quite annoying to brain-numbing. Elvis, it's great that you want to stretch your wings. You're a five-star talent. But please, oh please, oh please - can you hold a note now and then without that bloody vibrato?! Aaaaaaaahhhhhh...
 Another masterpiece!! October 20, 2005
edwina allen poe (MI)
I love all of EC's work, but this one will always hold a special place in my heart. His voice on this disc is clear and beautiful, the score is a perfect match for his voice. I never get sick of listing to "Still" or "I'm in the mood again". Some people who only know the 80s new wave concept of his music, may not get this album. But true fans of Elvis will appriciate this romantic and heartfelt album.
I concur... February 14, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
...with the reviewer who said that if there were anything that could possibly improve this terrific CD, it would be that a few arrangements were a bit livelier. Otherwise it's perfect as is.
"Let me tell you about her" (which I've been humming around the house.) and "Fallen" are among my favorites. I hear the next CD will be a rocker. This sort of musical variety should be encouraged and supported. Elvis Costello is a musical treasure. I'd like to see more diversity on one CD.
Very musically artistic January 5, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
NORTH is my first Elvis Costello CD. I did hear some of his past stuff and I really liked it...but NORTH is one of those CDs you can turn on and just lay down and chill. It's like wine drinking music...haha. I really dig Elvis Costello's voice...he's like the modern day Frank Sinatra, at least on this CD he is. And another thing I really like about the album is that most of the songs are just him singing and piano under him. So do yourself a favor, and get this really mellow jazzy album!
amazing - you better get this cd November 21, 2003
He did it again, amazing album with the fantastic Costello. Maybe it's a new genre, maybe it's a new record label but this man and his voice is outstanding, wonderful tracks, heard him live the other day in Ringsted playing some of the "north" tracks, and I was very impressed with his vocal performance and the "mood" he makes with his music
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