tricky: C/D S/D

I also own "Nearly God" but haven't played it much. I thought everyone hated "Angels..." (not heard myself). However, I've read enough good things about "Juxtapose" that it is on my list of things to buy if ever I see it going cheaply.

That all said, I have since realized that the Notorious B.I.G. essentially trumped him with "Suicidal Thoughts."

anyone heard the new album?

i heard it shrouded in a cloud of very mysterious tricky smoke. i was unmoved

shit sxkunk alert

one listen, needs more i feel. hardly maxinquaye part deux.

Just tossed all my Tricky shit into the yearly sell pile... I can't even bear to listen to Maxinquaye or Pre-Millennium Tension anymore, it all just sounds so insufferably dull and lifeless, stoned out of its mind and worse off for it.

Saw Tricky open for Devo a couple years ago and it was possibly the biggest example of AWFUL opening act + INCREDIBLE headliner that I've ever seen.

This has become my favorite Tricky tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6175vubQ-4E

is the new one any good or is that a dumb question?

This article makes a pretty good case for why Tricky fell so far from grace after Maxinquaye:

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jun07/articles/classictracks_0607.htm

It wasn't really him doing much of the music.

Except that Pre-Millennium Tension is the masterpiece.

Well, "Tricky Kid" is anyway...

Christiansands

new album is being hailed as a return to form, although i've heard that one before. anyone heard it yet?

I listened to the first half on Spotify; it was really really really good

new singles pretty good too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVQmQc2HBDk

I dont know if its on purpose but that video looks very low budget and not in a good way.

new album is being hailed as a return to form, although i've heard that one before.

every tricky album since PMT, lol

anyone heard it yet?

yes, and it's not good

Due to unforeseen US Visa issues preventing from him entering the country, Tricky is postponing his upcoming US tour dates in support of his new album False Idols. The rescheduled dates will take place in October, when Tricky is in the US to play Treasure Island Music Festival and Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit.

God dammit, I just bought tickets for the Philly date this afternoon :(

There's a track on it called Nothing's Changed which I really have a soft spot for.

I rated the "time 2 dance" single from a couple of years ago. Not mindblowing but nice, breezy but still tricky-y

Happy 30th Anniversary to Tricky’s debut album Maxinquaye, originally released February 20, 1995.
https://albumism.com/features/tricky-debut-album-maxinquaye-album-anniversary

I was 24 at the time, remember buying it first day of release.

Hi DJ M!

Hi DJ M!

Saw him live last night. Not seen him before, only a video on channel four decades back which impressed me but I can't remember it. He was on and off stage quite a bit. Barely said anything but did say thank you a lot. His singers really carried the show. He's almost like the foil. But he has presence and it's all centred around him really. It was very atmospheric as you might imagine. Very dim lighting. Really lends to creating the right mood for his music and his performance, which is not really a performance exactly. Takes the spotlight off him. He played a lot of music I just don't know..could be from his new album or the recent ones. Sounded pretty generic sort of alt rock stuff to me, but with a certain nakedness that you expect from him. Only recognised black steel and karma coma. But still a cool experience. Still no one like him really.

His stuff is often right on that ultrathin line between brilliant and crap, between formless and groove, or aimlessness/amateur and one of a kind originality, sometimes he reminds me of someone like Tracy Emin. Less emotionally naked but still just such a weirdly unique personal approach to what he does. Don't think he's as interesting when not working in torpid tempos though. All the rockier stuff he played was cool but just not anywhere near as involving as the slower tracks.