All This Useless Beauty

All This Useless Beauty
Studio album by
Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Released14 May 1996 (1996-05-14)
Recorded1995–1996
Length48:21
LabelWarner Bros.
ProducerGeoff Emerick, Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello and the Attractions chronology
Deep Dead Blue
(1995)		 All This Useless Beauty
(1996)		 Costello & Nieve
(1996)
Singles from All This Useless Beauty
  1. "It's Time"
    Released: April 1996
  2. "Little Atoms"
    Released: July 1996
  3. "The Other End of the Telescope"
    Released: July 1996
  4. "Distorted Angel"
    Released: July 1996
  5. "All This Useless Beauty"
    Released: July 1996
  6. "You Bowed Down"
    Released: September 1996 (US)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
Chicago Tribune
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Entertainment WeeklyA−
The Guardian
Los Angeles Times
NME7/10
Pitchfork7.5/10
Q
Rolling Stone
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All This Useless Beauty is the seventeenth studio album by the English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello, released in 1996 by Warner Bros. Records. It is his tenth and final album with his long-standing backing band the Attractions, and the last album he delivered under his contract to the Warner Bros. label, his contract expiring with a further compilation album, Extreme Honey. It peaked at number 28 on the UK album chart, and at number 53 on the Billboard 200.

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