Elvis Costello Announces New Album

Look Now, the new album by Elvis Costello & The Imposters, will be released October 12, 2018.

It’s the first album Costello has made with The Imposters - Steve Nieve (keyboards), Davey Faragher (bass) and Pete Thomas (drums) - since the 2008 release of Momofuku and his first new album since the acclaimed 2013 Roots collaboration, Wise Up Ghost.

According to the singer, the album will hark back to some his classic records: “I knew if we could make an album with the scope of Imperial Bedroom and some of the beauty and emotion of Painted From Memory, we would really have something”, said Costello.

Look Now will be twelve tracks. Although mostly written solely by Costello, tracks ‘Don’t Look Now’ and ‘Photographs Can Lie’ were co-written with Burt Bacharach, who makes a guest appearance, leading The Imposters from the piano for the two ballads.

From today, fans who pre-order the 12-track standard or the 16-song deluxe album from digital retailers will instantly receive a download of its two tracks ‘Under Lime’ and ‘Unwanted Number’.

This year, Costello cancelled his tour with six dates left as a result of being diagnosed with cancer. However, the singer later revealed he did so to recover – not to 'battle'.

The tracklisting for Look Now is below.

‘LOOK NOW’ Full Track-listing:

1. Under Lime
2. Don’t Look Now
3. Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter
4. Stripping Paper
5. Unwanted Number
6. I Let The Sun Go Down
7. Mr. & Mrs. Hush
8. Photographs Can Lie
9. Dishonor The Stars
10. Suspect My Tears
11. Why Won’t Heaven Help Me?
12. He’s Given Me Things

Deluxe Special Edition Tracks:

13. Isabelle In Tears
14. Adieu Paris (L’Envie Des Étoiles)
15. The Final Mrs. Curtain
16. You Shouldn’t Look At Me That Way