Article: Gnarls Barkley, Raconteurs can't live up to hype.

Byline: Ben Wener

I've just finished reading a thoroughly researched but badly edited and only slightly insightful biography of Elvis Costello called "Complicated Shadows," the last hundred pages of which are devoted to the mercurial artist's prolonged era of collaboration.

Costello with the Brosky Quartet, Costello with Burt Bacharach, Costello with guitarist Bill Frisell, with Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie Von Otter, with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, the Jazz Passengers, occasionally even the Attractions _ the list goes on and on. And it's still growing: His next album, "The River in Reverse" (due June 6), finds Costello mining the soulful sound of ...

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