LVIS 1S everywhere

again; King Crimson

kingpin does it himself;
True Believers a true find.

Elvis Costello & The Attractions —
- Get Happy!!
Elvis Costello & The Attractions.
~ Trust, Rykodisc 1994

These re-issues follow the
Elvis boxed set packaged in time
for the Christmas market last
year. Ryko continues with the
clean-up and remastering of the
original studio albums. Extended
play tracks pad out the reissues.

The updated Get Happy! gets
10 extra tracks (Girls Talk, Just A
Memory, So Young, Hoover
Factory) inclusive for a generous
31-track total. Originally record-
ed in 1979 Get Happy!! showed
a beat-happy band running on

‘high octane. Costello's frenetic

pace of creative output peaked

ELVIS COSTELLO

with an album profoundly influ.
enced by the Stax and Motown -
artist roster.

«. Stalwart fans will already
have most of the extra tracks
included here on earlier. compi-
lations like Out Of Our Idiot on
the Demon label: -

*”.. The Trust album récorded in

JUNE 24, 25, 26

Michael Becker

RECORD REVIEW

1980 represented a further
refinement and sophistication in
the the band’s sound. .

A lot of the material was writ-
ten prior to 1976. The fact con-
firms that Costello was no hali-
baked angry young man who
swept in on the New Wave in
the mid-1970s.

The nine extra tracks glued on
to Trust are mostly of the never-
previously-released category and
mostly reveal raw works in
progress. Again, liner notes are
by Elvis himself.

_ Adrian Belew - Here, Virgin

Music 1994

Here shows the ex-King
Crimson vocailist-guitarist prov-
ing his worth as a one-man
band.

Belew wrote, sang, played
and recorded at home. It’s a
convincing performance. If
there’s a quibble to be made it’s
in the wish to have heard more

~ of his guitar as a solo voice.

But he has the technology

“and he uses it well to tap the

1960s pop spirit much in the
way XTC revamped the vibe
midway through that band’s
career.

Most of the lyrics are a bit
gee-whiz.facile, but the overall
exuberance of the release makes
up for the deficit.

True Believers - Hard Road,
Rykodisc 1994 ;

M you caught Alejandro
Escovedo live earlier this year at
the Town Pump or last fall at the
Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle,
you saw one of Austin, Texas’
best folk-rock writers at work.

But his raw rock roots are
found in this band, a collabora-
tion fronted with his brother
Javier Escovedo.

Hard Road includes two
albums on one CD. Both were
first released in the mid-1980s.
The Escovedos wrote some fine’

tunes and delivered them with a:

TRUE BELIEVERS
monolithic three-guitar assault.
The combination of a hard-

edged sound and sensitive lyrics :

makes fora neat tension.

The band seems to have been
a few years ahead of its time and
based in the wrong city.

They weren’t country or R&B.
Had it been Seattle and 1992 for
the first album, True Believers
would have been true con-
tenders. -

All praise to Rykodise for pol-
ishing up the nuggets left in the
wake of this blaze of glory.

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