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You never know what's going to happen next and you're not quite sure what you're taking in as you progress deeper into its wintry regions - yet you're held spellbound, enraptured, lost at the edge of words.
Tricky and Martina Topley-Bird pair together to make one of the most successful Trip-Hop records of all time. While labeled as Tricky's debut solo project, the album's voice would not exist without the powerful and wildly talented women that lend support. With songs that drip with energy and sensuality, Maxinquaye is a relentlessly experimental album that plays with genre like a game of checkers.
Trip-Hop often gets a bad rap for sounding like stoner lounge music. This can be true, and should ... read more
Trip-Hop often gets a bad rap for sounding like stoner lounge music. This can be true, and should ... read more
Dare to enter the world of Maxinquaye and immediately you'll be challenged by its disarming charm: creeping beats, ambiguous words and intoxicated senses turn nightmares into dreams.
A classic, essential trip hop record that helped shape electronic and modern music the way we know it today. Tricky's debut album is a perfect blend of rock, hip-hop, electronic, reggae and many other genres. Many of it's qualities are due to Tricky's intense artistic streak in the early 90s when a majority of Massive Attack's critically acclaimed works began to show up, backed for his inovative and emblematic songwriting and producing skills.
Maxinquaye is a must for every music fan.
Maxinquaye is a must for every music fan.
It kind of fell of near the end for me, but I loved it overall. Essential Trip Hop, but I still prefer Dummy and Mezzanine.
END OF YEAR LISTS
| #2 | / | Spin |
MISC LISTS
| #40 | / | Spin (1985-2009) |
| #46 | / | FACT (1990s) |
| #66 | / | Pitchfork (1990s) |
| #70 | / | Rolling Stone (1990s) |
| #82 | / | SPIN (1985-2014) |
| #90 | / | Paste (1990s) |
| #202 | / | NME Top 500 of All Time |
Track List
- Overcome
- Ponderosa
- Black Steel
- Hell Is Round The Corner
- Pumpkin
- Aftermath
- Abbaon Fat Tracks
- Brand New You're Retro
- Suffocated Love
- You Don't
- Strugglin'
- Feed Me
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Added on: October 22, 2012
