- funk, hip hop, rock
- 56 min
- 12 tracks
- Blue Note
Wise Up Ghost is a collaborative studio album by British singer/songwriter Elvis Costello and American hip hop group the Roots growing out of Costello's appearances on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, where the Roots are the house band.
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Character
Spare, grave, contemporary and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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What critics gave it
Metacritic 77/100
- AllMusic4/5 ★
- The A.V. ClubC+
- Chicago Tribune3/5 ★
- The Daily Telegraph5/5 ★
- NME7/10
- The Observer3/5 ★
- Paste8.7/10
- Rolling Stone3.5/5 ★
- Spin8/10
- Slant Magazine4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Walk Us Uptown3:22
- 2Sugar Won’t Work3:31
- 3Refuse to Be Saved4:23
- 4Wake Me Up5:52
- 5Tripwire4:28
- 6Stick Out Your Tongue5:28
- 7Come the Meantimes3:53
- 8(She Might Be a) Grenade4:36
- 9Cinco Minutos Con Vos5:01
- 10Viceroy’s Row5:01
- 11Wise Up Ghost6:27
- 12If I Could Believe3:58
12 tracks, 56 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Elvis Costello, The Roots
- Label
- Blue Note
- Released
- 2013
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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