Am I the only one who’s getting a Magic Eye vibe from the cover for Ghostface’s forthcoming The Wizard Of Poetry (which, yes, the allusions are obvious)? The lighter bits of the GHOSTFACE in flowing script glow and catch shadows off the tennis-ball sky of Ghostface’s Emerald City—yeah, they’re all Oz allusions, and not signs that this is going to be the Wu-Tang member’s long-awaited grunge album—and they kind of give me a Merriweather Post Pavilion-ish headache.


Instead, it’s a very R & B-heavy record: “You can’t talk about slinging crack on an R&B album. Unless you get caught — it depends on how you say it — and your girl is gonna leave you, and she never came back, cause you were doing whatever you were doing,” Ghost told New York back in July.) (And I’ve heard “Baby,” the lead single, a bunch—or at least heard its Raheem DeVaughn-through-Autotune hook, since it didn’t register that said song was a Ghostface tune until I pulled it up for the purposes of linking in this post. Hmm.)


[HT: Pitchfork]