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Knowle West Boy
: :Tricky is back with an album named after the Bristol neighborhood where he grew up. It details the travels and travails of his youth, resulting in an eclectic aural history of his diverse upbringing. He reaches into post-punk, Two-Tone, reggae, hip-hop, and pop, twisting them into surreal songscapes. Tricky uses his astonishingly eclectic band and a host of great undiscovered singers to create the most varied and accessible set of his career.
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Maxinquaye
: :Less experimentally brash than his more recent release, Tricky's debut CD Maxinquaye is actually a better introduction to the British hip-hopper turned international trip-hopper than his later work. The dozen smoldering, moonlit tracks are less concerned with loopy aural exaggeration than they are with showcasing Tricky's slow-mo rap and singer Martine's sexy soprano. With the exception of the stellar 'Pumpkin,' (featuring vox from Alison Goldfrapp), the duo mix a colorful palate of rhythmic vocals, throbbing backbeats and gravelly electronic textures. Toss in large doses of sexual innuendo and Maxinquaye becomes a ...
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BlowBack
: :Since the release of his debut, Maxinquaye, Tricky fans have wondered when he would or could match the nightmarish splendor of that trip-hop masterpiece. Blowback may not entirely appease the Tricky faithful, but it is the Bristol innovator's most satisfying album in a while. With Maxinquaye's surreal sonics lurking around its edges, Blowback is wonderfully schizophrenic, cavorting through robotically muted ragga, surging funk rock, nauseous, sample-mangled ballads, and bizarre versions of songs like the 1930s standard 'Your Name' and Nirvana's 'Something in the Way.' In fact, with the Red Hot Chili ...
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Nearly God
: :British trip-hop phenomenon Tricky embarks on a second hypnotic, chilled-out ride to the outer limits. Guest artistes include Bjork, Neneh Cherry, Terry Hall, and Alison Moyet (who sings 'Make a Change,' the most accessible track here). --Jeff Bateman
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Pre-Millennium Tension
:Album Details:Australian Release Featuring A Special 'flat Pack' Limited Edition :Pre-Millennium Tension picks up where the first album Maxinquaye left off, but this CD fulfills the promise of Tricky's unbounded spontaneity and fondness for sonic digression. Abandoning the accessible pop of Maxinquaye, Pre-Millennium Tension serves up a beguiling array of sound effects, electro distortion and fragmented lyrics that amount to a rich--if bizarre-musical montage. As suggested by its title, this disc zeros in on a kind of end-of-the-millennium disruption of classifiable sound. With its cross-pollination of hip-hop, cabaret balladry, background textures, ...
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Angels with Dirty Faces
:Album Description:Out-of-print in the US. Universal. :What's really tricky is following up a debut as innovative and exquisite as 1995's Maxinquaye. Third time out (fourth if you count 1996's perplexing duets project Nearly God) and the artist formerly known as Adrian Thaws is still struggling to find the right balance of ambition and ability on Angels with Dirty Faces. The album has its moments: including a stirring collaboration with Polly Harvey on the bluesy 'Broken Homes' and singer Martina Topley-Bird's eerie rendering of Billie Holiday's 'God Bless the Child' on 'Carriage ...
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Vulnerable
:Album Description:Out-of-print in the US. Universal. :What's really tricky is following up a debut as innovative and exquisite as 1995's Maxinquaye. Third time out (fourth if you count 1996's perplexing duets project Nearly God) and the artist formerly known as Adrian Thaws is still struggling to find the right balance of ambition and ability on Angels with Dirty Faces. The album has its moments: including a stirring collaboration with Polly Harvey on the bluesy 'Broken Homes' and singer Martina Topley-Bird's eerie rendering of Billie Holiday's 'God Bless the Child' on 'Carriage ...
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Ruff Guide
:Album Description:Out-of-print in the US. Universal. :What's really tricky is following up a debut as innovative and exquisite as 1995's Maxinquaye. Third time out (fourth if you count 1996's perplexing duets project Nearly God) and the artist formerly known as Adrian Thaws is still struggling to find the right balance of ambition and ability on Angels with Dirty Faces. The album has its moments: including a stirring collaboration with Polly Harvey on the bluesy 'Broken Homes' and singer Martina Topley-Bird's eerie rendering of Billie Holiday's 'God Bless the Child' on 'Carriage ...
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Back to Mine
:Album Description:The latest installment in the Back to Mine series comes from one of the alternative dance scene’s most inspirational figures: Tricky. Part of the Bristol scene that spawned Massive Attack and Portishead, Tricky has continued to release his own personal brand of music: an amalgam of doped paranoia, slithering beats and eerily frozen melodies. Who could have predicted that his Back to Mine selection would include tracks from Kate Bush, Chet Baker or The Cure? His sleeve-notes explain all and give us a peek into the psyche of the man. ...
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Bad Company
from: Hollywood Records
: :There's a distinct flavor of mystery and intrigue woven through the hip-hop and rap found on the Bad Company soundtrack. Tricky's charcoal-hued rasp intones menace over a kaleidoscope of piano, background vocals, and factory-like noises, while the Dub Pistols' song contains a melancholy guitar riff snaking through its moody textures, like the gloomier moments from Moby's Play filtered through street-weary lyrics. Gorillaz, D12, and ex-Specials' member Terry Hall creep and stomp in a haunted house of beats and samples, while trip-hopping of the sinister (Jahei featuring Duganz) and longingly crooning (Rama ...
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