elvis costello / the juliet letters / 1993
Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet
Costello says, "It's called a song sequence for string quartet and voice and it has a title. It's a little bit different. It's not a rock opera. It's a new thing."
As the title let's suspect a collection of letters of all kinds: Different forms of love letters, a sentimental farewell letter, a suicide note, a advertising spam mail, a hilarious bitchy reply by an old eccentric aunt to a begging letter from one of her family members and so on. What I always loved about this album is that all these stories let little short films play in the head, Costello is more acting than just singing and also the wonderful instrumentation always suits the subject. Stylistically it might remind of music played in some victorian salon, but turning slightly avantgardistic here and there.
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