Tricky - Pre-Millennium Tension (1996)

Posted By: gribovar

Tricky - Pre-Millennium Tension (1996)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 268 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 107 MB | Covers - 33 MB
Genre: Electronic, Trip Hop, Hip Hop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Island Records (314-524 302-2)

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.
Tracklist:
01. Vent
02. Christiansands
03. Tricky Kid
04. Bad Dream
05. Makes Me Wanna Die
06. Ghetto Youth
07. Sex Drive
08. Bad Things
09. Lyrics of Fury
10. My Evil Is Strong
11. Piano

Total time: 45:34

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Tricky / Pre-Millennium Tension (314-524 302-2, US)

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