Thread by @connorratliff

There are 21 pages of liner notes that @ElvisCostello wrote for the new LP #LookNow which journalists & PR people have had access to.

I hope it won't be too long before they go up on ElvisCostello.com so more people who love the new album can read what he wrote about it!

I mean, I love the socks and all that, but beyond the music itself the big thing all Costello fans want is to read the excellent liner notes he writes for his albums, and I think it will be a long wait for any kind of "deluxe reissue", right?

I feel lucky that I became a fan during the era of the Rykodisc reissues, with my first purchases of @ElvisCostello's early albums accompanied by liner notes-- brief ones at first, but getting longer & longer with each new batch...

By the time the Rhino reissues came out, @ElvisCostello was writing about each album in such thoughtful detail that @Slate suggested that these collected writings amounted to his 1st memoir, in total longer than The Great Gatsby: slate.com/culture/2012/0…

Those CDs are all out-of-print now, and are worth tracking down but will cost you in 2018.

You can read the text of most of his liner notes on the wiki, however.

elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php…

One of the many impressive things about @ElvisCostello's memoir was that he didn't recycle material from the liner notes. He seemed to go out of his way to make sure he wasn't repeating himself. That can't have been easy!

But that circles back to my original point: there *are* liner notes to @ElvisCostello's new album-- but they are nowhere to be found.

Not in the booklets, not tucked away in the sleeves, not on the website.

Right now, they are a well-kept secret.

Maybe they will remain a secret forever. But I sure hope not. I'm certain a lot of people would love to read them...

Until then, we have the music... and the socks...