All This Useless Beauty

by Elvis Costello & The Attractions

All This Useless Beauty cover art

Originally intended to be a collection of songs given away to other artists, the veteran songwriter instead reclaimed the material for his final collaboration with The Attractions. The mature, highly polished arrangements heavily favor lush ballads and sophisticated chamber-pop structures over his earlier punk-infused energy. The melancholic, heavily orchestrated project marked the definitive end of an era before the backing band completely dissolved.

Genres

  • Pop Rock
  • Singer-Songwriter

Tracklist

  1. The Other End Of The Telescope
  2. Little Atoms
  3. All This Useless Beauty
  4. Complicated Shadows
  5. Why Can't A Man Stand Alone?
  6. Distorted Angel
  7. Shallow Grave
  8. Poor Fractured Atlas
  9. Starting To Come To Me
  10. You Bowed Down
  11. It's Time
  12. I Want To Vanish