North (Elvis Costello album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = North

| type = studio

| artist = Elvis Costello

| cover = ecn.jpg

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| released = 23 September 2003

| recorded =

| studio =

• AIR, London
• Avatar, New York City
• Nola, New York City

| genre = Pop

| length = 40:31

| label = Deutsche Grammophon

| producer = Elvis Costello, Kevin Killen

| prev_title = Cruel Smile

| prev_year = 2002

| next_title = Il Sogno

| next_year = 2004

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web |last1=Erlewine |first1=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |title=North |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/north-mw0000692667 |website=AllMusic |access-date=15 October 2018 |archive-date=15 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181015114435/https://www.allmusic.com/album/north-mw0000692667 |url-status=live }}

| rev2 = Pitchfork

| rev2score = 3.9/10{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/1623-north/ |title=Elvis Costello: North | Album Reviews |website=Pitchfork |date=2003-11-10 |access-date=2014-05-09 |archive-date=7 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241007230933/https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/1623-north/ |url-status=live }}

}}

North is an album by English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello, released in 2003. Contrasting with its rock-based predecessor When I Was Cruel (2002), North is an intimate album of ballads and torch songs using classical music and jazz idioms, partially inspired by the dissolution of his marriage to wife Cait O'Riordan and his burgeoning relationship with Diana Krall.{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/sep/12/popandrock.shopping5 |last=Simpson |first=Dave |title=CD: Elvis Costello, North |website=The Guardian |date=12 September 2003}} It reached No. 44 in the UK Albums Chart, No. 57 in the US Billboard 200 chart and No. 1 in the US Traditional Jazz chart.