Title: Get It!
Product review: Being a mild fan of Elvis Costello, and thinking that string quartets are the greatest invention in music in the last 500 years, I was curious to give this album a listen.EC and the Brodskys use the string quartet medium to travel through all the wide ranges of textures and emotions that are possible with those instruments. The cynic in me imagines the artists flipping through a catalogue "1001 Sounds to Make With a Violin/Cello Combination", and wondering what sort of letter it sounds like.Actually, I think the "letter" theme is stretched a bit in places, but even then the results are masterful works in which Elvis Costello shines in a fresh medium for him.EC has traded in his magic markers for a set of watercolors, and as we've all known for twenty years, he really knows how to paint a picture.After this album, I'm now a wild fan!
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