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- Summary: Tricky is a highly acclaimed musician and producer whose eighth album crosses genres by mixing reggae, rap, jazz and rock to blur the lines of definition.
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- Record Label: Domino
- Genre(s): Electronic, Trip-Hop, Club/Dance
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| Shiny gun, shiny gun, shiny gun right now it's time for the showdown. I never want to hold the gun without the glove's upon my hand, don't leave the... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 10 out of 19
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Mixed: 9 out of 19
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Negative: 0 out of 19
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Jan 5, 2011The thematic attack here is pretty surgical, cutting most of the time to the gangsta life he's so glad he sidestepped as a youth. The individual pieces are well-defined by his muzzy standards.
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Q MagazineAnother smart and limber record. An astute choice of collaborators plays its part. [Oct 2010, p.116]
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Mixed Race brims with well-formed songs played and sung with clear-headed emotion.
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Ultimately, Mixed Race, with its simmering tension, is a worthy follow-up to Knowle West Boy, and a fine entry in Tricky's catalog overall.
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It's only on 'Ghetto Stars' when that ominous whisper comes to the fore, that Mixed Race excites, and a cascade of strings that don't so much make us yearn for past glories as wonder what Tricky thinks he has left to prove.
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while there are moments when his old jaggedness cuts through--the scraping "Early Bird" brings Tom Waits to mind, while "Ghetto Stars" has an eerie keening quality suggestive of industrial screech--Mixed Race is long on half-digested detours.
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It might be difficult to differentiate after nine full-lengths, but Mixed Race may be the least engaging album we've heard from Tricky to date.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 1 out of 2
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Oct 12, 2010
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Feb 20, 2012
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