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2008 has been the year that the much-maligned sub-genre of trip hop was reborn, its leading practitioners returning to the public eye, heralded like long-lost war veterans. Massive Attack have taken over London’s South Bank Centre to curate the Meltdown festival; Portishead have released the finest and most uncompromising album of their career; now fellow Bristolian Tricky is back with his best album in at least a decade....full text |
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| Billboard |
| Thirteen years after debut album "Maxinquaye" was hailed as the zeitgeist of the mid-'90s U.K. trip-hop scene, Tricky is still spinning his rugged, moody dance/rap/rock tunes on "Knowle West Boy." No exceptionally new stylistic ground is broken in the process, but all the components of a classic Tricky joint are here. "Puppy Toy" starts off as a demonic lounge act, Tricky murmuring directly into your ear until his conversationalist female duet partner takes over in the soulful, electric chorus. At the other end of the spectrum, "Council Estate" is a jittering cyber-punk number....full text |
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| Allmusic |
| Is the year 2008 a Bristol revival? First there's a new Portishead recording (Third), their first in over a decade, then Massive Attack finishes a new album (Weather Underground) and curates the Meltdown festival, and finally, Tricky's released his finest record since Pre-Millennium Tension. Knowle West Boy is named for the Council Estates housing project neighborhood Tricky grew up in....full text |
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