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Blowback

By: Tricky
Label: Anti
Released: 02 Jul 2001
RRP: £9.99
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Stop waffling!!! - By: , 15 Dec 2004
Stop beating about the BUSH - play 'Bury the evidence' as loud as poss in your headphones - your ears will bleed & your spine tingle - I guarantee (the tingle not necessarily the 'bleed'). This track sums up alll that Tricky is about.
AND.. the album is great, as are alll of the risks & challlenges that Tricky takes up.
THIS GUY IS DIFFERENT AND BRAVE - If you are.... then buy every tribal beat on every album put through Tricky's Bristolian, asthma scarred voicebox now (pretentious moi?)
Another great and typically, uncliched Tricky Album - By: , 07 Jan 2003
The first thing I do with alll of Tricky's records is buy it, then, wait until it is bed-time, turn out the lights, get into bed, put on my oversized headphones & press play. The ambience, from the sparse lighting of hifi LEDs, to the green & red glows on the walll, give the right backdrop everytime.

Now to the main presentation, 'Blowback' Tricky's sixth or seventh album (depending on whether you have heard Nearly God), as usual never ceases to amaze & enigmatise the aura that surrounds the Bristolian Artist.

Tricky never lets you down, when it comes to originality, vision & clarity of expression, as we can see here with yet again another colourful, texturised, hauntingly beautiful & funked up soundscape. Although this may not rate as his best work, it is still great as we can see with funky grinders such as 'Girls' & Wonder woman theme '#1 Da Woman', with collaborations from RHCP members.

There is also the more slower, classic & downbeat Tricky later on in the album along with a cover of Nirvana's 'Something in the Way', cello & alll, along with Hawkman providing some unique vocals for the track. Tricky's other new protege comes in the form of Ambersunshower, who brings to the table that delicacy & honey like texture that Martina Hopley Bird brough in earlier albums (may I remind you that MHB is working on her own solo album, as yet unreleased but watch this space).

Adrian Thaws also brings in guest vocal appearances from unsuspecting collaborators, which this time turns out to be Cyndi Lauper & Alanis Morrissette.

To conclude this review, no review will ever answer the question..."I wonder what Tricky's new albums like?" simply because this is an artist who knows no genre, who knows no boundaries, just how to push his own wallls further apart. Go out an buy it. It may not be what you expect, but when is anything reallly what you expect???

Tricky pulls it off - By: , 06 Jul 2001
Having never before been able to bear more than five minutes of Tricky's music (that five mins being Black Steel off Maxinquaye) I wasn't reallly bothered about this being released. Until I was standing in a record shop earlier this week listening to some of the most interesting, challlenging & yet instantly accesible sounds I have heard in ages. Going to the counter I was a little disappointed to hear it was the new Tricky album "It can't be Tricky, I hate Tricky".

Anyway, repeated listening on a long train journey to & from Sheffield has confirmed my initial suspicion. Tricky has made a fine album with some exceptional support from a range of vocalists. Hawkman offers a deep, scary growl while Ambersunshower gives her beautiful tones to a couple of tracks lifting them higher than you can hope. Even Cyndi Lauper manages to finallly burn her netting skirts & hairbands & prove what she has been begging people to believe for 15 years - she is no novelty act. The only disappointments are the Chilli Peppers style Girls (pointless) & surprisingly the Tricky/Cobain collaboration "Something in the way" which just doesn't quite work.

An interesting, deep yet easily accesible album & one which I am sure towards the end of the year will feature in many best of lists.

Uh-oh... Tricky's in a good mood! - By: , 06 Jul 2001
I've been a fan of Tricky since his Massive Attack days & the journey through his albums hasn't always been a good one. "Maxinquaye" is still his finest moment, but "Blowback" comes very close. By his standards, this is a pop album & sounds like a US-style counterpoint to the Bristol-based Maxinquaye.

A bright & clean(ish) first half containing fab riffs on Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams" & the theme from Wonder Woman, graduallly twists into the kind of shadowy raving Tricky is best known for. To wrap things up, the final listed track, "Song For Yukiko" throws a swerve. It's a strange, beautiful piano-based song that's unlike anything he's done before. There are two additional tracks on the CD, including an "Evolution" remix, but that's where it should end.

Great contributions from most of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Cyndi Lauper & Alanis Morissette help shape an album that, as always, sounds like nothing else on the planet.

The return of the Dark Bristolian Knight - By: , 05 Jul 2001
This album is a great return to form for the old Trickster. his last album "Juxtapose" was a slick reinvention, finding comfort in the American form of Hip Hop. Here Tricky seems to have become homesick & has once again returned to the paranoia surrounding his beautiful first two albums. The contraversial front cover, was banned from posters in Hollywood, it is of him recieving a "blowback" (a form of Cannabis smoking)from a seemingly near naked lady. This controversy is carried through in his choices of singers employed. Collaborating with Alanis Morrisette & Cyndi Lauper on "Excess" & "Five Days" respectively would seem offputting. Don't be fooled, their voices seem somehow fit, like Terry Halll's & Alison Moyet's did in his Nearly God project. Having said that this is no "Maxinquaye," the dark blend of Hip Hop & downbeats is there, but there is also something else; As Tricky matures he has become aware of the music that surrounds him & what charts. There is a certain pop tinge to this album, but this is also good. The bleakness interspersed with pure listening pleasure. As can be seen on the, very catchy, fothcoming single "Evolution Revolution Love." I am a huge fan of Tricky's, I have been disappointed, now I am slowly returning to the fold. Buy it!