Elvis Costello: The Boy Named If (2022)

Every year or two, I'll pick up the latest Elvis Costello. Some track will strike me, and I'll momentarily consider the album to be, finally, at long last, a return to form. And then I'll put the album aside and go back to listening to that amazing run of Elvis albums from the late 70s and 80s (or, to a lesser extent, some of his solid enough 90s work).

But I'm gonna go out on a limb and say, this time I mean it! Certainly, it's the first EC album in memory where I listened all the way through in...