Urban Desires: Elvis Costello
- "I don't know if this is Elvis's greatest record, probably not, but there is plenty here to satisfy." Includes sound and lyric samples.
- http://desires.com/2.4/Music/Reviews/Docs/elvis.html

Salon.com: Elvis and His Idols
- Joyce Millman's review: "Its very lack of cohesion gives it a strangely persistent allure; it keeps calling you back, like the last two clues you can't figure out in the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle."
- http://www.salon.com/weekly/music960513.html

Metroactive Music: Elvis Costello
- Nicky Baxter's review: "Elvis Costello wants to be taken seriously as a singer as opposed to a musician, but on his latest album, full of ballads and almost entirely devoid of balls-out rock, he misses his goal."
- http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/06.20.96/costello-9625.html