#26 on the 2013 Musical Bacon Calendar

#26 on the 2013 Musical Bacon Calendar

Wise Up Ghost by Elvis Costello and The Roots

You already know and love one or both of these artists. Between the two of them, Elvis Costello and The Roots have 69 years of experience in the music business. And by listening to this album, you’d think that all of those years were designed specifically to lead them to this intersection of sound.

Wise Up Ghost has the best of both worlds. It’s a funky, horn, drum and guitar infused ride, and there’s really not much more I need to say about it. If you haven’t yet heard it, start with the song above, “Walk Us Uptown.” Surely you’re intrigued enough by these names alone to want to hear more; they do my work for me.

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27. Us Alone by Hayden
28. Pure Heroine by Lorde
29. Shaking the Habitual by The Knife
30. False Idols by Tricky
31. Let’s Be Still by The Head and the Heart

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This is basically a lyric video, which I’m quickly coming to feel is a lazy and unimaginative way to release a song / music video. But since it features a song by Elvis Costello and The Roots from their upcoming collaboration, Wise Up Ghost, I’ll show it here anyway.

Costello continues to give me a reason to come back into the fold after falling out of it. The fact that he’s working with the Roots this time around is the best yet. The album comes out September 17.