Rayman Legends

October, 2013

• A musical pairing can be as awkward as a blind date but lasts a lot longer. If Metallica hadn't clicked on Lou Reed's Christian Mingle profile, metaphorically speaking, we'd have been spared the 2011 catastro­phe Lulu. But the romance between Elvis Costello and the Roots has a solid foundation: Both are known for smarts, musical curiosity, far-ranging taste and eyeglasses. On Wise Up Ghost, Costello and the Roots use the famil­iar components of soul music to depict a dangerous, lamentable mode...