(Mercury) Related: Elton John: ‘Our kids aren’t stuck in a mansion. We go to Pizza Hut’ Thirty-two albums in,you probably know where you stand on Elton. The fans need-to-know is that songs like the title track, Looking Up and Guilty Pleasure find John and band rolling in jaunty, or vintage mood. But even Elton-sceptics can win solace in how producer T-Bone Burnett continues to improve the veteran piano man by filling the interstices of his work with detail,rendering songs such as the rather valid Claw Hammer at least 43% more nuanced. Although no one sounds quite like Elton John, that sound sometimes feels smug. And when lyricist Bernie Taupin puts sexy drivel in the mouth of the sexagenarian father-of-two (“Ice cubes on the back of your neck”), or its enough to maintain you praying for the dawn.
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Source: theguardian.com