Elvis Costello released a lyric video for his new song “No Flag,” which he recorded alone in February.
Explaining his motivation, he reported that he’d travelled to Finland and spent three days in a studio that was “a 20-minute ferry ride from downtown Helsinki,” adding: “I wanted to go somewhere nobody knew me. So, this is ‘the Helsinki sound.’”
“No Flag” follows the 2018 release of his Grammy-winning album Look Now, which was a collaboration with the Impostors, Burt Bacharach and Carole King, and aimed to hark back to his ‘80s sound.
Costello performed a coronavirus lockdown show from his Vancouver home in March, as his contribution to a benefit campaign for the U.K.’s National Health Service.