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    ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS

    Mar 19, 2020 3 minutes
    NICK HASTED
    The music is melancholy and knowing as much as thuggish and thunderous

    ONCE, this Elvis was king. For the decade after his 1977 debut, Costello was the punk generation’s unquestioned laureate, a prolific songwriter of matchless gifts who rode the dark currents of Thatcher and Reagan, fusing them with his own infidelities and secrets. Albums would ritually be dissected in mammoth two-part interviews. Even as his chart star faded, his greatness was unquestioned. The Grammy awarded to his latest album, , underlines his continuing status in the US. And yet in 21st-century

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