- rock, alternative rock
- 48 min
- 12 tracks
- Warner Bros. Records
All This Useless Beauty is the seventeenth studio album by the English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello, released in 1996 by Warner Bros. Records. It is his tenth and final album with his long-standing backing band the Attractions, and the last album he delivered under his contract to the Warner Bros. label, his contract expiring with a further compilation album, Extreme Honey. It peaked at number 28 on the UK album chart, and at number 53 on the Billboard 200.
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Character
Spare, character-led, classical in form and grave.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- AllMusic3.5/5 ★
- Chicago Tribune3.5/4 ★
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyA−
- The Guardian4/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times3/4 ★
- NME7/10
- Pitchfork7.5/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- Uncut4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1The Other End of the Telescope4:06
- 2Little Atoms3:58
- 3All This Useless Beauty4:40
- 4Complicated Shadows4:44
- 5Why Can’t a Man Stand Alone?3:15
- 6Distorted Angel4:31
- 7Shallow Grave2:07
- 8Poor Fractured Atlas4:03
- 9Starting to Come to Me2:44
- 10You Bowed Down4:56
- 11It’s Time6:00
- 12I Want to Vanish3:16
12 tracks, 48 minutes.
About the album
- Label
- Warner Bros. Records
- Released
- 1996
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- ZA
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