Nicky Baxter's review: "Elvis Costello wants to be taken seriously as a singer as opposed to a musician, but on his latest album, full of ballads and almost entirely devoid of balls-out rock, he misses his goal."

Joyce Millman's review: "Its very lack of cohesion gives it a strangely persistent allure; it keeps calling you back, like the last two clues you can't figure out in the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle."

"I don't know if this is Elvis's greatest record, probably not, but there is plenty here to satisfy." Includes sound and lyric samples.