Look Now
by Elvis Costello & The Imposters
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Elvis Costello & The Imposters bestography
Look Now is ranked 16th best out of 37 albums by Elvis Costello on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Elvis Costello is This Year's Model which is ranked number 334 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,012.
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Look Now track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Look Now rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Ranked listening log 2018 101-200 | 85/100 | - |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 100 Music Albums of 2018 | 64/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  spigelwii | Top 10 Music Albums of 2018 | 3/10 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 2018 | 84/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 100 Music Albums of 2018 | 77/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Graeme2 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 71/100 | 6 |
| 2026 | spigelwii | Top 90 Music Albums of the 2010s | 28/90 | 14 |
| 2025 | spigelwii | Favorite Albums #101-200 | 94/100 | - |
| 2025 | Johnnyo | Fopp Records Albums of the Year 2018 | 75/100 | - |
| 2025 | Tuur | Top 50 Music Albums of the 2010s | 50/50 | 0 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 59 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 182 | |||
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Look Now ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 3 days ago | Purplepash | 4,996 | 75/100 |
| ! | 07/26/2026 04:14 | Tamthebam | 23,349 | 69/100 |
| ! | 03/15/2026 10:59 | TonySayers61 | 25,669 | 64/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 21% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.7/100, a mean average of 74.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.1.
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Purplepash 3 days ago in What album are you listening to? (cont.)Look Now comments
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I am a big fan of the first two Elvis Costello (and The Attractions) albums, in his later work he is discovering a lot of different and new genres, which didn't get to me as much as My Aim is True.
The first listening of this album was hard and honestly, I didn't really liked. Found the courage to listend to the album for a second time and liked it way more. It gets definitely better wit repeated listenings. I really enjoy Elvis' song in the more soul songs, didn't expect it be this good!
First album of brand new material from Elvis for eight years. Leading up to the release of the album talk has been about the record being a meeting of, Imperial bedroom, and, Painted from memory, and I can see that but it's the latter it's closer too for me. Opener, Under lime, is great and sets the tone and feel for the rest of the album. In truth it's a typical, latter day, Elvis Costello lp. Sophisticated pop with those typical Costello lyrics, very adult and very good although a little short on surprises. Still good to have the great man back especially after his recent cancer scare. Very good and will probably get even better with repeated listenings.
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