- Audio CD (26 Jun 2001)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Hollywood
- ASIN: B00005LNH1
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 288,204 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Excess |
| 2. Evolution Revolution Love |
| 3. Over Me |
| 4. Girls |
| 5. You Don't Wanna |
| 6. #1 Da Woman |
| 7. Your Name |
| 8. Diss Never (Dig Up We History) |
| 9. Bury The Evidence |
| 10. Something In The Way |
| 11. Five Days |
| 12. Give It To 'Em |
| 13. A Song For Yukiko |
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
On Blowback, Tricky looks to others to breathe fresh life into his world. But at first glance, Tricky's choice of collaborators for his sixth seems not just awkward but wilfully perverse. Ed Kowalczyk (lead screamer for rock relics Live), Cyndi Lauper, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ambersunshower and Hawkman all appear. Yet, to his inestimable credit, the Bristolian wild child successfully weaves them all into his world. So much so that it feels as if he has purposely taken a back seat from vocal duties to oversee this calculatedly commercial enterprise. On the single, "Evolution Revolution Love", the drums fire such as "Missile Command" laser cannons as Ed Kowalczyk unselfconsciously warbles hip-hop mannerisms ('Now that I understand this right / Let me take it to the mic'). And for sheer cheek, the cover of the "Wonder Woman" theme tune, featuring Chilli Pepper visionary John Frusciante on guitar and vocals and Flea's spiralling bassline, deserves to be a pop hit. In Ambersunshower, Tricky has found a formidable muse, whose presence restores the hormonal balance missing from recent albums. The ragga wail of Hawkman, Tricky's new prodigy, turns a dirge-like interpretation of Nirvana's "Something in the Way" into something approaching a rasta spiritual. But below the slick exterior lurks dissonance and discontent, constantly threatening to upset the equilibrium. Foremost among these disruptive elements is Tricky's voice, which has devolved to a diabolic growl, words barely discernible. But even this intervention fails to derail Blowback from sounding like Tricky's most accessible and focused album for years. --Chris Campion
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Uh-oh... Tricky's in a good mood!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Blowback (Audio CD)
I've been a fan of Tricky since his Massive Attack days and the journey through his albums hasn't always been a good one. "Maxinquaye" is still his finest moment, but "Blowback" comes very close. By his standards, this is a pop album and sounds like a US-style counterpoint to the Bristol-based Maxinquaye. A bright and clean(ish) first half containing fab riffs on Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams" and the theme from Wonder Woman, gradually twists into the kind of shadowy raving Tricky is best known for. To wrap things up, the final listed track, "Song For Yukiko" throws a swerve. It's a strange, beautiful piano-based song that's unlike anything he's done before. There are two additional tracks on the CD, including an "Evolution" remix, but that's where it should end. Great contributions from most of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Cyndi Lauper and Alanis Morissette help shape an album that, as always, sounds like nothing else on the planet.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The return of the Dark Bristolian Knight,
By A Customer
This review is from: Blowback (Audio CD)
This album is a great return to form for the old Trickster. his last album "Juxtapose" was a slick reinvention, finding comfort in the American form of Hip Hop. Here Tricky seems to have become homesick and has once again returned to the paranoia surrounding his beautiful first two albums. The contraversial front cover, was banned from posters in Hollywood, it is of him recieving a "blowback" (a form of Cannabis smoking)from a seemingly near naked lady. This controversy is carried through in his choices of singers employed. Collaborating with Alanis Morrisette and Cyndi Lauper on "Excess" and "Five Days" respectively would seem offputting. Don't be fooled, their voices seem somehow fit, like Terry Hall's and Alison Moyet's did in his Nearly God project. Having said that this is no "Maxinquaye," the dark blend of Hip Hop and downbeats is there, but there is also something else; As Tricky matures he has become aware of the music that surrounds him and what charts. There is a certain pop tinge to this album, but this is also good. The bleakness interspersed with pure listening pleasure. As can be seen on the, very catchy, fothcoming single "Evolution Revolution Love." I am a huge fan of Tricky's, I have been disappointed, now I am slowly returning to the fold. Buy it!
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Tricky pulls it off,
By A Customer
This review is from: Blowback (Audio CD)
Having never before been able to bear more than five minutes of Tricky's music (that five mins being Black Steel off Maxinquaye) I wasn't really bothered about this being released. Until I was standing in a record shop earlier this week listening to some of the most interesting, challenging and yet instantly accesible sounds I have heard in ages. Going to the counter I was a little disappointed to hear it was the new Tricky album "It can't be Tricky, I hate Tricky".Anyway, repeated listening on a long train journey to and from Sheffield has confirmed my initial suspicion. Tricky has made a fine album with some exceptional support from a range of vocalists. Hawkman offers a deep, scary growl while Ambersunshower gives her beautiful tones to a couple of tracks lifting them higher than you can hope. Even Cyndi Lauper manages to finally burn her netting skirts and hairbands and prove what she has been begging people to believe for 15 years - she is no novelty act. The only disappointments are the Chilli Peppers style Girls (pointless) and surprisingly the Tricky/Cobain collaboration "Something in the way" which just doesn't quite work. An interesting, deep yet easily accesible album and one which I am sure towards the end of the year will feature in many best of lists.
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