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Generally favorable reviews- based on 19 Ratings
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Mixed: 2 out of 19
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Negative: 1 out of 19
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Jul 6, 2013I am a big fan of Tricky. The only album which I consider a disaster is Vulnerable. The mistake is that every album after Maxinquaye is always compared to it. He surely evolves on every album, experiments especially on albums he made in 90 's. Knowle West Boy and False Idols are the best albums he made in this millennium, perhaps closest to his eponymous debut.
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May 29, 2013This is the Tricky album I have been waiting for since Blowback! The beats are fresh and exciting, the vocals haunting and beautiful. False Idols is the most cohesive and inventive album Tricky has released in over a decade and one of the best albums of the year thus far.
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Jul 15, 2013False Idols is vintage Tricky, which means it could slot in at around 1997--the melodies are spare, the beats spacey, the vibe dark.
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Q MagazineJun 17, 2013False Idols might fall short of such heights [of his debut], but at least sounds like the same person made it to the studio. [Jul 2013, p.111]
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MojoJun 17, 2013Some 18 years after his astonishing debut album Maxinquaye, Tricky has come close to making Maxinquaye II. [Jul 2013, p.88]