Indoor Fireworks promised for ELVIS COSTELLO’s new six-disc collection

ELVIS COSTELLO’s ‘King Of America & Other Realms’ celebrates and explores the songwriter’s lifelong love, fascination, and influence of American music, spanning numerous albums and inspired collaborations with some of the most celebrated musicians, songwriters and producers, including his longtime creative partnership with T Bone Burnett.

Compiled by Costello, the six-disc Super Deluxe Edition box set, ‘King Of America & Other Realms,’ is scheduled for release November 1 (via Ume).

The collection traces Costello’s musical travels from Hollywood – where the ‘King Of America’ album was recorded – to a new take on ‘Brilliant Mistake,’ recorded 2024 in Cape Fear, via his recording adventures in New Orleans, Oxford and Clarksdale, Nashville and Memphis.

‘King Of America & Other Realms’ is anchored by a new 2024 remaster from the original master tapes of Costello’s 1986 T Bone Burnett-produced album, ‘King Of America,’ and features solo demos from 1985, including never previously released demos cut at Red Bus Recording Studios in London, a 17-song Royal Albert Hall concert from 1987, mixed from multitrack tapes; and a three-disc compendium of recordings and collaborations from across the last four decades, including previously unreleased demos, outtakes and live recordings.

‘King Of America & Other Realms’ culminates with three new recordings recorded in 2024: ‘Indoor Fireworks (Memphis Magnetic Version), ‘That’s Not The Part of Him You’re Leaving,’ with Larkin Poe, and that recent arrangement of ‘Brilliant Mistake’ performed, as Costello remarks, “…over a habanera rhythm in a minor key to mark the dark passing of the years and our elusive hold on hope, taking a detour into the 1933, Harry Warren and Al Dubin song, ‘Boulevard Of Broken Dreams,’ rather than just alluding to it in the lyric of the last verse.” 

The final song of the set is ‘That Day Is Done,’ co-written by Costello and Paul McCartney for McCartney’s 1989 album ‘Flowers In The Dirt,’ performed with the gospel group ‘The Fairfield Four,’ bringing this wild and wonderfully odd odyssey to a close.

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