“Magnificent Hurt” leads Costello’s new LP, due out next year
Elvis Costello and the Imposters have announced a new album. The Boy Named If is out January 14 via EMI. Today, Costello has shared lead single “Magnificent Hurt.” Check it out below.
The album was produced by Costello and Sebastian Krys, and according to Costello, it’s a collection “that take us from the last days of a bewildered boyhood to that mortifying moment when you are told to stop acting like a child—which for most men (and perhaps a few gals too) can be any time in the next 50 years.”
Costello debuted “Magnificent Hurt” earlier this month on Memphis radio station WEVL. The Boy Named If follows his most recent LP, last year’s Hey Clockface. Costello also released an EP with French versions of six tracks from that LP, plus a Spanish-language rework of This Year’s Model. Costello is currently on tour with his band, the Imposters.
Read Pitchfork’s 5-10-15-20 interview “Elvis Costello on the Music of His Life.”
The Boy Named If:
01 Farewell, OK
02 The Boy Named If
03 Penelope Halfpenny
04 The Difference
05 What If I Can’t Give You Anything But Love?
06 Paint the Red Rose Blue
07 Mistook Me for a Friend
08 My Most Beautiful Mistake (guest vocal by Nicole Atkins)
09 Magnificent Hurt
10 The Man You Love to Hate
11 The Death of Magic Thinking
12 Trick Out the Truth
13 Mr. Crescent
