Wise Up Ghost (And Other Songs)The Roots · 2012

rollingstone

7.0

““History repeats the old conceits,” Elvis Costello sang thirty-six years ago on Imperial Bedroom, his finest hour of versatile pop mastery. But even back then, he was rarely interested in repeating himself – going from the angry, young almost-punk of 1978’s This Year’s Model to the literate, political New Wave of 1979’s Armed Forces to his “soul record” Get Happy! to the barbed pop of Trust and th”

pitchfork

6.5

“Elvis Costello and the Roots' collaborative album, Wise Up Ghost, is one of the most densely referential works in Costello's catalogue. The grooves, from the Roots, are loose, muted, and murky, but the music glows with an attention to detail and sense of history.”