is Tricky's latest albums and it comes at a time where I have nearly
lost all faith in him. None of the albums that came out after ANGEL
WITH DIRTY FACES has succeeded to maake me happy. VULNERABLE got a
step close but wasn't enough.
I'm afraid to say KWB had the same effect. It's full of different
styles and reminds us of his different periods and it lacks a certain
constance in quality.
During the few first songs, I got really excited and then the joy
faded after a few tracks...
There are songs that I really dislike like "Council Estate" and "C'Mon
Baby", and they really could belong to the BLOWBACK period.
There are also some boring fillers like "Slow".
Then, there are also some good songs like PUPPY TOY, which remind us
of ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES.
But that's maybe the main problem of that album, it "reminds" us of
the past.
Sometimes it even feels like he's trying to recreate a feeling of the
past, "Coalition" or "Past Mistake" but it somehow lacks power in
convincing and comes out a little too clean in the mix. Like a
mimicking of himself.
Different faces of Tricky, but where is he really at now?
The cover of the album shows him naked and wearing a mask. So Tricky
is the sum of all of that...Maybe that is after all a very honest record
PS:
We got various vocalists, both male (a very touching ragga flow in
the beginning of the song "Bacative") and female but they are
strangely not even attached to their respective songs in the credits.
The CD booklet is just mentioning the production and then, "CREDITS
TO: . ..". It's an original way of crediting artists, but it may not
pay them much tribute since we don't know who performs on what.
Oh, and if you're wondering if the booklet is worth buying in store
rather than downloading, forget it. There's absolutely nothing worth
of mentoning in the booklet. Except if having two squares of yellow
paper sounds exciting to you.
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