Tricky's debut, Maxinquaye, is an album of stunning sustained vision and imagination, a record that sounds like it has no precedent as it boldly predicts a new future. Of...
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I'm sure this record is about the apocalypse. The guy on the cover (Mr. Tricky, I presume) stares real serious like he's going to melt you with his eyes and the beats are...
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Maxinquaye was an unexpected hit in England, launching a wave of similar-sounding artists, who incorporated Tricky's innovations into safer pop territory. Tricky responded...
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"All I do is rhyme," murmurs Tricky at the start of Juxtapose, but don't believe him for a second. Nothing's ever the way it seems with this British maverick....
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Tricky's potential once seemed boundless, but by the time of his fifth album, Juxtapose, he hadn't expanded his trademark sound: a creeping, menacing blend of hip-hop,...
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On his 1995 masterpiece, Maxinquaye, Bristol B-boy Tricky created doped-up trip-hop smeared silly with beautiful layers of queasy samples, malevolent melodies, and gritty...
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Mission Accomplished doesn't do much to reinvent the club/dance sonics Tricky forged on Maxinquaye, but it does offer some of the biggest beats he's ever cooked up. The...
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Featuring Alanis Morissette, members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Cyndi Lauper, and Live's Ed Kowalczyk, Blowback is Bristol bad boy Tricky's most upbeat and accessible...
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First, the bad news. There are no new tricks on BlowBack, the star-studded 2001 comeback by Tricky, the pioneering trip-hopper that wandered his way into the wilderness. He...
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It's not sequenced in chronological order, but that's about the only flaw with Island's 2002 compilation, A Ruff Guide. Over the course of 17 tracks, the highlights from...
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