--- product_id: 1480550 title: "Wise Up Ghost Deluxe" brand: "elvis costello" price: "₨542" currency: SCR in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.sc/products/1480550-wise-up-ghost-deluxe store_origin: SC region: Seychelles --- # Wise Up Ghost Deluxe **Brand:** elvis costello **Price:** ₨542 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Wise Up Ghost Deluxe by elvis costello - **How much does it cost?** ₨542 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sc](https://www.desertcart.sc/products/1480550-wise-up-ghost-deluxe) ## Best For - elvis costello enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted elvis costello brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Product Description Long-rumored and shrouded in mystery, this collaborative album between Elvis Costello and The Roots promises to be one of the most unexpected and surprising releases of 2013. Definitely a situation where the whole is greater than the sum of the amazing parts, this album lives up to all of the intrigue and expectations. Review it's a moody, brooding affair, cathartic rhythms and dissonant lullabies. I went stark and dark on the music. Elvis went HAM on some ole Ezra Pound sh*t. --Ahmir ?uestlove Thompson ## Images ![Wise Up Ghost Deluxe - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41KvHW3IuSL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Wise up -- when are you goin' to rise up?" *by A***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 6, 2013* This is the best Elvis Costello album since the under-rated  When I Was Cruel  from 2002 (see my five-star review). The sound produced by Costello with Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, the Roots, and producer Steven Mandel is unique. Costello, Thompson & Mandel share both songwriting and production credits.The best song is "Cinco Minutos Con Vos," featuring the beautiful guest female vocals of La Marisoul along with Costello. One of five songs featuring the Brent Fischer Orchestra, it reminds me of the fantastic David Byrne album  Rei Momo  from 1989. Other stand-out tracks include "Wake Me Up," with an insistent funky groove, "Come the Meantimes," "Wise Up Ghost," and the poignant ballad "If I Could Believe," which is stripped back to just Costello's voice with a piano trio. Two of the three bonus tracks on the Deluxe version are also among the best -- "My New Haunt" and "Can You Hear Me?" -- so definitely pick it up rather than the standard version.If the quotient of strong tracks was a little higher WISE UP GHOST would attain five-star greatness, but as it is too much of the album is at the level of mood and texture lacking powerful hooks and melodies. Costello's lyrics are cryptic and suggestively dark -- "Tripwire," for instance evoking the endless sequence of acts of U.S. military aggression around the world -- and are included in the booklet, which is designed to look like the City Lights Pocket Poets series, which famously included Alan Ginsberg's "Howl." (There is no jewel case -- the CD is slipped into the back cover of the book.) I've named the review from a line in the title track that suggests working people rising up against their capitalist overlords -- suggests, but only cryptically.Starting with  The Delivery Man , (see my three-star review), Costello was focusing on country-inflected styles for several years, and I felt that it was an uninspired period. WISE UP GHOST is much better. It grows on me with repeated listening. If I had reviewed it a couple of weeks sooner I might have given it only three stars, rounding down from 3.5. Now I have to round down a bit from closer to 4.5.?uestlove and the Roots prove to be excellent collaborators, and the music is rich and complex, revealing more and more with repeated spins.(Review #24) ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ GET WISE *by K***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 17, 2013* For this long time fan, Costello's aim has been more haphazard than true since he ditched The Attractions. There are exemptions in Brutal Youth (featuring The Attractions) and an underrated When I Was Cruel. But since Spike have felt him as inconsistent, overwrought, self-conscious as he's been intermittently brilliant. Sometimes, all you need is a right hook and a punch line you can feel. As for his collaborations, from Bacharach to Otter to Toussaint---they've all been eye rollers in my book.That said, it sounds like Costello has finally wised up. Ghost is his most straightforward, least contrived in decades. One would think a pairing with the Roots and their brand of eclectic Hip Hop and Funk would be an awkward one. But if anything, they live up to their moniker by keeping things grounded. The Roots provide an eerie, hypnotic Funk to the proceedings. At times reminiscent of early Beck. Which really doesn't do them justice as they're hardly imitators. Its more sinister cocktail music and laid back Funk than Hip Hop. Despite, his usual brand of vitriol, Costello sounds much more at home and playful here than in the other musical hats he's doffed and juggled. Everybody hates a tourist but as Get Happy proved, R & B and Soul suit Costello far more than any forays south of the Mason Dixon line.Vocally, this is his most restrained in years. But that restraint doesn't come at the expense of edge. I always felt Costello's lower register was eerily effective on classics like I Want You, Beyond Belief and Almost Blue. Mercifully he's left the cringe inducing Broadway belting at the door. And even if he lacks his usual caustic hectoring, don't expect the crooning claustrophobia of North. This is a far more moody, dark and varied affair.Seasoned devotees will pick up snippets of Pills & Soap along with strains of Hurry Down Doomsday on Stick Out Your Tongue. Here's Costello and The Roots organically "sampling" from his back catalog. And it works. There are also a lot of Musical "in" jokes. You can tell ?uestlove is a genuine fan. The opening of Tripwire is from Spike's Satellite. There's a mix of Radio Silence and High Fidelity in the bonus track, Can You Hear Me. (She Might Be A) Grenade is a reworking of Delivery Man bonus track, She's Pulling Out The Pin. Lyrically, things typically veer between the outraged and the arcane. But in terms of the delivery and backing the collage approach on Ghost is refreshingly unpretentious.While I found a lot to like off National Ransom, it lacked cohesion. Here, all the eclectic elements including the Deluxe bonus tracks come together to make this Costello's strongest cuff on the ear since the turn of the century. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good and Getting Better *by P***Y on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 6, 2013* Wise Up Ghost is definitely a grower, that's not to say there's nothing to enjoy on the first listen. It's just that this is another new Elvis sound and it takes time to acclimatise to this. The Roots appear to be in the driving seat musically, with a crisp clear sound.There are some great tracks on this album that begin to show themselves to you on repeated listening, with my current favourites being 'I Refuse To Be Saved' and 'Tripwire'. I Refuse To Be Saved is especially good when the volume is up.Others have commented on Elvis vocals here and I have to agree that he sounds better than he has in a while. There are always moments on his releases that leave you feeling he is trying a little too hard to hit that note, but on Wise Up Ghost I have not been left with that feeling.Another above average if not great album by EC. 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