Shipbuilding

The album begins with Robert Wyatt´s Shipbuilding, maybe one of the greatest political pop songs ever written and the finest work of Elvis Costello and Clive Langer. The critic Sam Kemp wrote „Langer´s sauntering jazz progressions suffused the words with real tenderness, as though we were being sung a lullaby and a protest anthem at the same time.“ Sadly, songs about the relationship between war and prosperity are today as relevant as in the times of the Falklands War.