Elvis Costello Announces New Album ‘Hey Clockface’ & Shares Single

Elvis Costello is gearing up for the release a new album as Hey Clockface is coming on October 30 through Concord Records. The news of Costello’s latest LP was accompanied by single “We Are All Cowards Now.”

Recently released singles “Hetty O’Hara Confidential” and “No Flag” are also among the 14 tracks featured on Hey Clockface, which was recorded in Helsinki, Paris and New York City. Costello was backed at sessions in Paris that yielded the bulk of the album by an ensemble he dubbed “Le Quintette Saint Germain” consisting of keyboardist Steve Nieve, Mickaél Gasche on trumpet, flugel horn and serpent plus cellist/drummer Pierre-François ‘Titi’ Dufour and vocalist Ajuq. Renaud-Gabriel Pion also contributed to the sessions in Paris.

Costello tracked “No Flag,” “Hetty O’Hara Confidential” and “We Are All Cowards Now” as solo affairs at Helsinki’s Suomenlinnan Studios. Michael Leonhart produced sessions in New York City that featured guitarists Nels Cline and Bill Frisell. Elvis contributed his vocals to the tracks “Newspaper Pane” and “Radio Is Everything” from the NYC sessions remotely. “Michael sent this music to me from New York at the perfect time,” Costello said. “It connected to elements in both of the previous sessions and completed the picture.”

“I wanted the record to be vivid, whether the songs demanded playing that was loud and jagged or intimate and beautiful,” Elvis explained of Hey Clockface, which is dubbed “An Elvis Costello & Sebastian Krys Production.” Listen to “We Are All Cowards Now” below:

Hey Clockface Tracklist

1. Revolution #49
2. No Flag
3. They’re Not Laughing At Me Now
4. Newspaper Pane
5. I Do (Zula’s Song)
6. We Are All Cowards Now
7. Hey Clockface/How Can You Face Me?
8. The Whirlwind
9. Hetty O’Hara Confidential
10. The Last Confession Of Vivian Whip
11. What Is It That I Need That I Don’t Already Have?
12. Radio Is Everything
13. I Can’t Say Her Name
14. Byline