Elvis Costello's Armed Forces nick cave stories and gossip from dozens

stories and gossip from dozens of people who played

a final give-it-everything-you've-got effort to keep their fantasy of being a real rock band alive

He needed to lay to rest some ghosts

this is a guidebook to myth and mystery

soon realizing that she is in fact the prophesied ArchAndroid

Elvis Costello's Armed Forces nick cave stories and gossip from dozens'm convinced that Franklin Bruno knows more about Armed Forces than even Elvis Costello does. His dense interrogation of the album traces its roots through punk back to Ray Charles and Burt Bacharach, examining the nuanced integration of so many different styles into something new, fierce, and idiosyncratic As contradictory and as caustic as his subject can be, Bruno understands that Costello's shortcomings only make him more fascinating as a human