Album Rating: 3.5

So is this the only tricky album worth listening to or is there more?

Album Rating: 4.0

This one is a fundamental part of 90s trip-hop experimentalism and a classic in its own right.

His other stuff is listenable I still say Tricky Kid from the follow up Pre-Millennium Tension is his best tune. Threatening.

Album Rating: 4.0

the two after this are solid

Album Rating: 3.5

Cool. You know, it's funny the places I hear tracks off this sometimes. They kind of just pop up randomly

Album Rating: 2.5

need to check



Sneaky edit: Checked, boring.

Honestly every album from here through mixed race has worthwhile tracks on them, but tricky is incapable of making an album that is good the whole way through so there is a lot of bad stuff too

Hes a good artist to just make a big playlist for, compile all his good tracks sprinkled across his discog

Album Rating: 4.0

Black Steel is sex

Album Rating: 4.0

Agreed pots. Fella is too off his neck while writing stuff to sort the wheat from the chaff.

Album Rating: 4.0

>Black Steel is sex



sexy for a cover anyway

Album Rating: 4.0

Black steel (3)

Album Rating: 5.0

The worst track on the is probably 'Strugglin' but even that's great - this is the most consistent trip hop album for me, Mezzanine is consistent but is the one mood pummelled home by the last few tunes, as good as it is.



Blue Lines is less consistent than this but still perfect despite that for me mainly because of the nostalgia and atmosphere, none more early '90s - this one is none more mid '90s

" this is the most consistent trip hop album for me"

lol

Album Rating: 5.0

Not consistently the same mood (‘Dummy’, ‘Mezzanine’) but (and I guess it must be the nostalgia talking...) this is the most consistently interesting across the run time and it’s all at least great.



This and Blue Lines won the repeat plays war a long time ago for me, just the two I feel like playing almost anytime any day.

this is the worst quintessential trip-hop album. there's nothing about it i'd call "consistent". track quality ranges from like 1/5 (Black Steel, Brand New You're Retro) to 5/5 (Hell Is Around the Corner, Aftermath) and everything between. but it's one of the few Tricky albums where his bewildering inconsistency and more questionable quirks don't ruin the album experience on a whole.

Album Rating: 5.0

I like Black Steel and Brand New but they’re goofy inclusions - they make me like Tricky more on this album, a sort of miracle they don’t derail the album.



The ‘men who switch in’ part of Black Steel becomes a key moment too. I can hear ‘Brand New’ being ‘bad 90s’ but the fact it’s called ‘Brand new You’re Retro’ and even in 95 sounded dated is perfect, and the put down line ‘you’re a bad motherfucker cause you’re not alone’ again is funny over a not tough song. Just very much the Tricky personality.



His personality over spills in a genre that often plays it cool I guess and I like that.

Album Rating: 4.0

black steel is cool

Album Rating: 4.0

Atmosphere unreal

Album Rating: 5.0

i think overcome > karmacoma but glory box > hell is round the corner

Album Rating: 4.0

black steel rocks, it's cheesy AF and has no place on a trip hop record but it somehow works, it's a 1/5 in the best possible way

Spun this the other day, still great.