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One of popular musics most prolific and creative composers, Elvis Costello has written songs in every conceivable genre: pop, reggae, rock, country, funk, soul and jazz, but also for full orchestras and string quartets. What you may not have noticed is that a surprising number of these songs are crime storiesnot mere nods toward unsavory events featuring questionable characters, but complete tales of murder and violence told in verse.
Costellos song titles alone confirm one of his preferred themes: Accidents will Happen, American Gangster Time, Bullets for the Newborn King, Coal-Train Robberies, The Final Mrs. Curtain, Hetty OHara Confidential, Kinder Murder, My Thief, Shabby Doll,�� Shot with His Own Gun, Thats How You Got Killed Before and Watching the Detectives, among them. His album titles include Blood & Chocolate, Brutal Youth, National Ransom and When I Was Cruel. You can just imagine the so-called pulp mysteries of the 1920s, 30s and 40s bearing identical titles accompanied by lurid, evocative cover art.
In Brutal & Strange, contemporary masters of crime fiction dig into Costellos catalogue for inspiration. The marriage of Costellos themes and these award-winning authors creativity will seem an inevitable match when you experience the results. Whether its Meg Gardiner and Complicated Shadows, Catriona McPherson and Tramp the Dirt Down, Alex Segura and I Want You Mark Billingham and Our Little Angel or many other virtuoso interpretations, the stories match the composers high standards and suggest theres even more stirring beneath the surface of his songs.
In his Everyday I Write the Bookexplored here by Gar Anthony HaywardCostello portrays an author as sinister, controlling and vengeful. Thats not to say the authors who contributed to Brutal & Strange are anything of the kind. But you will find their questionable characters engaged in unsavory events. One imagines Costello himself would approve.
Genre: Mystery
Costellos song titles alone confirm one of his preferred themes: Accidents will Happen, American Gangster Time, Bullets for the Newborn King, Coal-Train Robberies, The Final Mrs. Curtain, Hetty OHara Confidential, Kinder Murder, My Thief, Shabby Doll,�� Shot with His Own Gun, Thats How You Got Killed Before and Watching the Detectives, among them. His album titles include Blood & Chocolate, Brutal Youth, National Ransom and When I Was Cruel. You can just imagine the so-called pulp mysteries of the 1920s, 30s and 40s bearing identical titles accompanied by lurid, evocative cover art.
In Brutal & Strange, contemporary masters of crime fiction dig into Costellos catalogue for inspiration. The marriage of Costellos themes and these award-winning authors creativity will seem an inevitable match when you experience the results. Whether its Meg Gardiner and Complicated Shadows, Catriona McPherson and Tramp the Dirt Down, Alex Segura and I Want You Mark Billingham and Our Little Angel or many other virtuoso interpretations, the stories match the composers high standards and suggest theres even more stirring beneath the surface of his songs.
In his Everyday I Write the Bookexplored here by Gar Anthony HaywardCostello portrays an author as sinister, controlling and vengeful. Thats not to say the authors who contributed to Brutal & Strange are anything of the kind. But you will find their questionable characters engaged in unsavory events. One imagines Costello himself would approve.
Genre: Mystery
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