Critic Reviews
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Observer Music Monthly
This is easily Costello's most instinctive, least self-conscious record of original songs in over a decade.
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Entertainment Weekly
Soul ballad 'Flutter & Wow' might be the best of his rare love songs, and harmonies from Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis add elegance to this garagey mix. [23 May 2008, p.122]
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All Music Guide
As it makes these digressions seem funny, not fussy, and that's ultimately the charm of Momofuku: it's captures a loose, natural Elvis Costello, somebody that hasn't been captured on record in years. It's still a Costello that plugs Lexus, writes operas and plays jazz festivals, but here he's not trying to prove anything, he's just making music and that's why it's one of his most enjoyable latter-day records.
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Boston Globe
Costello gives us Momofuku, titled in tribute to the inventor of the Cup Noodle, and this collection goes down as easy and tasty as its namesake's ingenious snack.
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Los Angeles Times
Some of the songs toward the end seem downright slight ("My Three Sons," "Song With Rose," "Go Away"), but in all it's a rewarding, rambunctious ride.
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The Onion (A.V. Club)
It would be a stretch to call anything on Momofuku great, but it's the breeziest, most immediate record he's made in years.
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No Ripcord
Momofuku has glorious fragments and plenty of passion.
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Rolling Stone
Among his sharpest sets in years, Momofuku was first released on double-disc vinyl.
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PopMatters
Momofuku is the kind of more-than-solid effort that reaffirms a great artists’ relevance, but doesn’t quite prove it all over again.
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The Phoenix
Costello’s flubbed lines are left intact and the album’s mixes can be wildly uneven, but missed perfections make for a pretty riveting whole.
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NOW Magazine
This second album for Lost Highway isn’t radically different from 2004’s return to sneering form The Delivery Man, only the rockin’ tracks sound slightly less raucous and the ballads not quite as bitter. So he’s back in Attractions mode, sans the old piss and vinegar.
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The New York Times
It’s effortfully tossed off; it’s a middling record battling against his built-in high standards.
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