03.12.2025
Elvis Costello brings an early St. Patrick’s Day, and a lot else unexpected, to the Park West
Chicago Tribune: Christopher Borrelli: March 12 2025
This show, he explained, was a conscious attempt to tear back the “artifice” from the material, discover stark new reinterpretations, find strange tricks in old dogs, whittle out unexpected arrangements or just recognize the sadder song he didn’t realize he wrote the first time. It was often lovely and wildly ambitious stuff, by turns soulful then menacing, rollicking then bittersweet, though if you came expecting something more traditional and danceable, I regret to inform you:
This, too, was not business as usual.