Elvis Costello performs with the hip hoppers The Roots. With "Wise Up Ghost" create both sides of a thoroughly successful, exciting communicative album.
So strange the connection between Elvis Costello and the Roots seem at first - in some ways it was probably inevitable. On one hand, obviously both parties at the age always sociable. The Roots as a band as in form of her restless drummer Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson escorted about any of Jay-Z on Amy Winehouse to Fiona Apple, and as the house band of the late-night talker Jimmy Fallon they have already masterfully trained as a human jukebox.
Costello again, the aggressive Nerd of the post punk, croonte with Burt Bacharach and Allen Toussaint, was accompanied by the Brodsky Quartet and sang with mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter. Above all, he showed early in his career that he could be the reggae rocking approach as fearless as the Motown twist.
Therefore, it is not surprising that "Wise Up Ghost" from both sides, a thoroughly successful, exciting album was communicative. Who expects a tough hip-hop punch is usually disappointed - of course, because ever since the Roots prefer the more fluid moments. Quest Loves concise clattering snares betrommeln Costello's like slightly irritated grumbling as casual as precisely mostly in Downbeat area. Only in exceptional cases they swing in "Refuse to Be Saved" up to a torn, covered with shimmering, tumbling strings radio, and only twice they dim the light intensity on ballads.
Like the most beautiful Costello Schmachter
"If I Could Believe" unfortunately falls something arg audience centered, but "Tripwire" shuffles as a fine, tender soul, therefore, can compete with the best Costello shame Tern. Most you find yourself with cool wumpendem bass and the typical, precise syncopation limping Questlove drums arranged in dry neo-soul numbers again.
Quite wonderfully accentuate small package designs Costello singing: In "Grenade" are the short-cut brass brassy soul, in "Viceroys Row" a few soft woodwinds with flute; gentle choral motifs envelop the chorus of "Tripwire" and " Wake Me Up short "dengelt a psychedelic Blaxploitation guitar. Great also the orchestra labor, which occupy the hissing pool evocative nagging of the title track with lots of suspense.
This reminds one hand, the neo-soul productions Thompson for D'Angelo and Erykah Badu. On the other hand, the roots can definitely be on Costello's songwriting one, in the ill-tempered and sarcastic lyrics about war economy, personal disappointments and general events in turn older as an analogy to the hip-hop sampling texts such as the evil "Pills and Soap" or melodic motifs example, "Mary Satellite "quotes. The result is a highly stimulating, and aesthetically admirable connection between the social watch hip hop of the Roots and Costello awake poetry that redeems the titular promise to clear an elegant way.
Elvis Costello & the Roots: Wise Up Ghost (Blue Note / Universal)
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