TRICKY pre-millennium tension UK LP SEALED BRLP 623
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Description
ARTIST: Tricky
TITLE: Pre-Millennium Tension LP
LABEL: Fourth & Broadway (BRLP 623)
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: UK
YEAR: 1996
COVER CONDITION: MINT (factory loose bag seal)
VINYL CONDITION: MINT Unplayed
TRACKS:
A1 Vent
A2 Christiansands
A3 Tricky Kid
A4 Bad Dreams
A5 Makes Me Wanna Die
A6 Ghetto Youth
B1 Sex Drive
B2 Bad Things
B3 Lyrics Of Fury
B4 My Evil Is Strong
B5 Piano
DETAILS: A mint, sealed UK LP from 1996!
"Maxinquaye was an unexpected hit in England, launching a wave of similar-sounding artists, who incorporated Tricky's innovations into safer pop territory. Tricky responded by travelling to Jamaica to record Pre-Millennium Tension, a nervy, claustrophobic record that thrives in its own paranoia. Scaling back the clattering hooks of Maxinquaye and slowing the beat down, Tricky has created a hallucinatory soundscape, where the rhythms, samples, and guitars intertwine into a crawling procession of menacing sounds and disembodied lyrical threats. Its tone is set by the backward guitar loops of "Vent," and continued through the shifting "Christiansands," and the tense, lyrically dense "Tricky Kid," easily Tricky's best straight rap to date. Occasionally, the gloom is broken, such as when the shimmering piano chords of "Makes Me Want to Die" ring out, but nearly as often, it becomes bogged down in its own murk, as in the long ragga rant "Ghetto Youth." While the lyrics are often quite effective in conveying dope-addled paranoia, what ties the album together is its layered rhythms and soundscapes. Though it might not sound that way immediately, Pre-Millennium Tension is as much Tricky reaching back to his hardcore rap roots as it is a sonic exploration. As such, it stands as a transition record for Tricky, but its overall effect is only slightly less powerful than Maxinquaye or Nearly God. " -Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic guide
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