|
Angels With Dirty Faces
06/02/1998 3:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
Rob O'Connor
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 slow and draggy so you know any partying taking place is being done in the face of impending doom and great danger. Alcohol makes people rowdy so any mind-altering substance available probably makes you real mellow. Aside from that, the album is interesting in the way a sound effects record can really freak you out. That Tricky's mostly abandoned sampling may seem like a big deal to some, but that there's no noticeable improvement here suggests he's not particularly good at galvanizing his musicians. The funky ambiance suggests Isaac Hayes hooking up with Tom Waits in a dark alley, and "Talk To Me (Angels With Dirty Faces)" is noir in all the right ways. But much of the rest plods with no real direction, like a movie where the visuals are breathtaking but the script got left at home.
|
