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Knowle West Boy
by: Tricky

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0801390019425
Label: Domino
Manufacturer: Domino
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Domino
Release Date: September 09, 2008
Studio: Domino
Sales Rank: 4916
MPN: 194

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Tricky is back with an album named after the Bristol neighborhood where he grew up. It details the travels and travails of his youth, resulting in an eclectic aural history of his diverse upbringing. He reaches into post-punk, Two-Tone, reggae, hip-hop, and pop, twisting them into surreal songscapes. Tricky uses his astonishingly eclectic band and a host of great undiscovered singers to create the most varied and accessible set of his career.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- one of tricky's best
this album is good for a tricky album. if your into the evolution of tricky, you will like this one. allot different than the old stuff but still on the same feel. if your into taking long walks, this album is good for that.

Rating:

- The end of the longest drought in musical history
Great early work with Massive Attack was followed by Maxinquaye easily one of the top ten releases of the 90's and then nothing. Oh there was a cut here and there that teased at the genius of his early work, but nothing consistent. Well folks, the drought is over. This may be even better than Maxinquaye. I won't rush to judgement on that issue until I hear this disc a few hundred more times, but I am just happy that he still has it in him. My favorite cut opens the disc, Puppy Love. I cannot get it outta my head a mix of a smoky piano lounge sound, some violin and the Tricky hip hop signature whisper. It segues into the wonderful Bacative and the disc never lets up except for one throwaway track that sounds more like some of his weaker experimental stuff, Coalition. As usual he fills ... Read More

Rating:

- mixed bag: some Nearly God, some just OK
Many tracks are reminiscent of Nearly God, which I thought was terrific albeit not as good as Maxinquaye. Best two tracks are, by far, Veronika and Past Mistake. Those two tracks are alone worth the price. Others are as uneven as Pre-Millenium Tension. His experiments with rock guitar are where this album hits and misses: Puppy Toy is pretty great. Council Estate has very nice parts to it although it could be more coherent. Ultimately, this album would be much better reduced to eleven tracks, minus C'mon Baby and Slow.

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- Tricky is back in the music game
I heard the songs and I immediately knew--the oddly phrased piano lick in "Puppy Toy", the resurgent aggression of "C'mon Baby", the drivingly exotic groove of "Baligaga", the moving real-time elegy of "Joseph"--Tricky, whom I have come to love for the genius of his early work and his career-spanning sense of ear-catching sounds, has returned! After what started to seem like a death knell with the release of the stale albums Blowback and Vulnerable, Tricky has returned to the music world sounding 100% fresh and ready to take a whole new audience by storm. Now, though, he's turned his old mistakes into new disciplines, and that's what makes Knowle West Boy superb.

How Knowle West Boy really wins my favor is that it combines both new (rock and dance) and old (trip hop, hip hop, and ... Read More

Rating:

- Pick and choose on this one
If you're a Tricky fan from way back, this record will mostly frustrate you. Not present here is the style that made him famous, which was taking the beats and styles you know and twisting them into something fresh and compelling. Much like his last couple of records, this record largely contains tracks that are a mish-mash of styles attempting to create a new genre that doesn't want to be created. There are a couple of tracks I'd recommend: "Baligaga", "Coalition" and "School Gates" has that "Nearly God" vibe down cold. but most of this record is stuff you can appreciate, but probably don't want to hear a lot of.

If you thought his last couple of records were awesome, you'll really dig this. If you thought he's gone downhill since around his fourth or album, you won't like this ... Read More

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