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	Tricky: Vulnerable: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		One reason was because Tricky's work with Massive Attack and his groundbreaking early singles predated the LP's release by two or three years; another is because it's still difficult to believe that he's been considered irrelevant for only about a mere four or five years.
		But as one of the architects of a much-maligned former "now" sound, the pressure on Tricky to stay ahead of the curve was perhaps always going to be an impossible burden, and so it seems that with every subsequent release, the shadow of Maxinquaye has loomed.
		Tricky's latest record seems to celebrate his new label and locale, and his seemingly healthier outlook on life: Instead of wading in a swamp of paranoia and dread, he's stepping into the light with sunnier tones, brighter hues, lilting strings, and even some soothing melodies.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/22669/Tricky_Vulnerable (767 words)

	Tricky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tricky was a member of the influential 1980s Bristol sound system The Wild Bunch and contributed to the first two Massive Attack albums.
		Tricky failed to complete a number of lyrics for the Massive Attack album Protection and gave the band some of the lyrics he had written for Maxinquaye instead.
		Tricky found it difficult to cope with the huge success of Maxinquaye and he subsequently eschewed the laidback soul sound of the first album to create an increasingly edgy and aggressive punk tinged music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tricky (921 words)

	Tricky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Tricky's Maxinquaye (Island) was one of the angriest, loveliest, most alluring and shattering albums of last year, and though it didn't attract a large following, the fact that it came from left field only makes it more potent.
		You didn't need to hear Tricky's cover of Public Enemy's "Black Steel" to know that this was an outsider's album: you couldn't miss the slow-boil anger simmering beneath the languorous, rustling melodies, or avoid the bitterness, frustration, and fear tucked among the jagged, fragmented lyrics.
		Tricky sounds the most bitter and accusatory ("I don't understand you, I don't want your time of day"), but when he reaches the central line, he sounds weary and drained, as if whatever it was that was promised and not delivered meant more to him than he can bear to let on.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/music/reviews/08-08-96/TRICKY.html (699 words)

	Splendid E-zine reviews: Tricky
		Tricky and Ambersunshower pull it off well, delivering the lyrics in such a way as to be loving without being saccharine.
		Tricky's music is full of options, swinging between love songs and revenge fantasies, social commentary and diary entries.
		Tricky will back a synth-pop keyboard melody with churning guitars or whisper a jazz standard over drum loops and heavy bass lines.
	www.splendidezine.com /reviews/jul-9-01/tricky.html (769 words)

	Tricky - Music Downloads - Online
		Bio: Originally, Tricky was a member of the Wild Bunch, a Bristol-based rap troupe that eventually metamorphosed into Massive Attack during the early '90s.
		Throughout 1995, Tricky was omnipresent in the U.K., collaborating with and remixing for a wide variety of artists, including Björk, Luscious Jackson, and Whale.
		Tricky's next full-length solo effort, Angels With Dirty Faces, appeared in 1998, followed a year later by Juxtapose, a collaboration with Cypress Hill's DJ Muggs and DMX's Grease.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/104/119/1/1041191.html (439 words)

	MetroActive Music \| Tricky
		Tricky, like Elvis and countless others before him, was finding a new way to meld white and fl music.
		Juxtapose is Tricky's most accessible album since Maxinquaye, largely because he seems to have left most of the beats to DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill and DMX producer Grease.
		If Tricky's touch is elusive on some of the underlying soundscapes--many of which shriek with unexpected electric guitars--vocally he's more present than ever, alternating a furiously fast, perfectly syncopated raggae-inflected rap with his signature scratchy hiss.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/09.29.99/tricky-9939.html (681 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Tricky
		Tricky's irreverent guttural spittings over mine-shaft beats and funereal orchestration are set off by the moody blues of vocalist Martina.
		Tricky, trailed by a bassist, keyboardist, guitarist, drummer and Martina, entered to a whoop of anticipation.
		Tricky is one of the few musicians who transcend the recorded persona.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/01.30.97/tricky-9705.html (743 words)

	Tricky: Maxinquaye ---Ink Blot Magazine
		Tricky began his career as a part of the Bristol-based hip-hop ensemble, the Wild Bunch, which developed into Massive Attack.
		Tricky continued to reinvent himself through remixes and collaborations with artists such as Björk, RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan, and Luscious Jackson.
		Tricky can be pretty misleading; he is able to camouflage his paranoia, confusion, and anger with a dense wall of sound and low, mumbled vocals.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Tricky_Maxinquaye.htm (454 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Maxinquaye - Tricky at Epinions.com
		For those who haven't had the pleasure, Tricky is a self-styled studio wunderkind who honed his skills with Massive Attack in the early-90s.
		Tricky's tenuous grip on his own mental demons comes through vividly in his lyrics.
		Tricky's songwriting has an intensely personal edge that draws listeners into his melancholia and almost forces them to understand him (a very difficult proposition, indeed).
	www.epinions.com /musc-review-5418-17D406E6-3847DBDF-bd1 (486 words)

	Tricky: Vulnerable ---Ink Blot Magazine
		The suffocating gloom that seemed to encircle even Tricky's best work all these years has lifted, and the result is not, thankfully, a cheery pop album, but an album that sounds like it was fun to make.
		But it doesn't feel like Tricky is trying to punish anyone with his music anymore, so when he finds a funky riff or a catchy melody he lets it drive the song rather than mangling it with a laptop and an echo chamber.
		Tricky will probably never be cool again, and a lot of people who used to hang on his every sample will never hear this album.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Tricky_Vulnerable.htm (653 words)

	Amazon.com: Vulnerable: Music: Tricky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Tricky's emphasis on one major vocalist (Costanza) was a smart move because it makes the album that much more relative to itself.
		Tricky also placed a strong emphasis on placing strong beats uniformly throughout the album, and generally speaking this is a more upbeat album than his earlier works like Maxinquaye.
		Tricky's creative hunger is never satiated and he will always be pushing the boundaries of mood, music and sound.
	www.amazon.com /Vulnerable-Tricky/dp/B00009PJRI (1303 words)

	nintendojo ~ a site to see
		SSX Tricky is a follow-up to the previously released SSX for the PS2.
		Courses in Tricky are modeled aptly as well as sporting moderate amounts of obstacles and other geometry.
		Tricky may be played with 1 or 2 players via a vertical split screen.
	www.nintendojo.com /reviews/NGC/view_item.php?1011162374 (797 words)

	Tricky
		As one of the original members of the Wild Bunch, which later became Massive Attack, Tricky provided laid-back if somewhat foreboding vocal raps to the downtempo grooves that later became the defining characteristic of the trip-hop genre.
		In 1993 Tricky followed this up with his first solo single "Aftermath," which featured the first appearance of his vocal muse Martina Topley-Bird, who remained a central part of Tricky's sound for the next six albums.
		Tricky seems to be trying to break his rut and move away from his jaunts into darkness and paranoia in favour of necessary innovation and experimentation in pop.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/tricky.html (610 words)

	PlanetXbox - A Member of the GameSpy Network
		Tricky one-ups its predecessor in a lot of ways, if only because they've taken the "more is better" approach and included an avalanche of tricks, personality, and tracks.
		SSX Tricky offers up six new riders, in addition to six of the eight from the original game, although most of them are locked at the start.
		Tricky has a Road Rash-like ability to hit passing riders and cause them to crash, and much like that classic motorcycle racer, this actually affects how the riders will react to you later on.
	www.planetxbox.com /features/previews/2001/ssxtricky_handson (897 words)

	Amazon.com: BlowBack: Music: Tricky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Since the release of his debut, Maxinquaye, Tricky fans have wondered when he would or could match the nightmarish splendor of that trip-hop masterpiece.
		There appears to be a general trend in the direction of BlowBack being best in the early going and worse as it wears on, but lots of dissent even there, with some partisans of the Nirvana cover towards the end of the album, or the Cyndi Lauper collaboration even further on.
		on tricky's album blowback [2000], he pairs himself with the likings of anthony keidis and flea of the red hot chili peppers, ed kowalcyzk of live, alanis morissette and even cyndi lauper.
	www.amazon.com /BlowBack-Tricky/dp/B00005LNH1 (1884 words)

	Virginmega.com - INTERVIEWS - Exclusive Interview - The Trade of Tricky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Tricky's also quick to recount his formative years growing up in Knowle West, where a typical day consisted of waking up, not going to school, smoking some spliff, hitting the social club with friends, then robbing a house to procure money for more spliff.
		But Tricky is very much a man of two separate minds, his thug life not withstanding, and his latest album, Blowback, is a testament to his dueling natures.
		Though as admittedly self-destructive and inconsistent as he is, Tricky thrives off the same characteristics people have criticized him for - unpredictability and indiscretion.
	www.virginmega.com /default.asp?aid=5E8 (576 words)

	Tricky: Mission Accomplished EP: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It didn't help that Martina, such an essential element in Tricky's earlier, better work, was nowhere to be found on the album.
		Tricky utilizes (read: rips off) the main riff of the Mission: Impossible theme-- a song which has already been retooled to fit 4/4 rock/pop formats at least twice on a mainstream level over the past four years-- and retools it to fit a 4/4 rock/pop format.
		And to continue Tricky's newfound tradition of carbon-copying the already prosaic and mundane, he even reuses one of the drum loops from "Mission Accomplished" as the primary beat for "Crazy Claws."
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/22671/Tricky_Mission_Accomplished_EP (706 words)

	ANTI- Artist - Tricky
		Born in Bristol in 1968, Tricky came to prominence as a guest vocalist on Massive Attack's groundbreaking albums, Blue Lines and Protection.
		A long-time Tricky fan, she gave a demo of her songs to his drummer after attending a Tricky show in Rome last year.
		Today Tricky is the first to admit he has made a lot of mistakes in his career.
	www.anti.com /artist.php?id=22 (1232 words)

	Music \| Unblunted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		For starters, it marked Tricky as the most unconventional and adventurous creative force in the brooding new realm of trip-hop, a sound that had grown up around Bristol’s Massive Attack collective and come to encompass everything from that group’s reggae-tinged rhythms to the cinematic sweep of Portishead to Tricky’s own dystopic dreamscapes.
		But Maxinquaye also set Tricky apart from his trip-hop peers by raising the tantalizing possibility that in Adrian Thawes, Bristol might have unwittingly produced a uniquely British hip-hop auteur who had more to offer than just a paler imitation of American rap.
		Even Tricky, whose warm passages of dub were suffused with a stoned, devoted understanding of hip-hop’s textured riddims, often employed the young, supple-voiced Martine (and a number of other female singers) as a foil for his own gruff, asthmatic tones.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/other%5Fstories/documents/01718220.htm (1050 words)

	Tricky : Maxinquaye - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Tricky's debut, Maxinquaye, is an album of stunning sustained vision and imagination, a record that sounds like it has no precedent as it boldly predicts a new future.
		Much of the music on Maxinquaye has its roots in the trip-hop pioneered by Massive Attack, which once featured Tricky, and after the success of this record, trip-hop became fashionable, turning into safe, comfortable music to be played at upscale dinner parties thrown by hip twenty and thirtysomethings.
		And that air of mystery that can be impenetrable upon the first listen certainly is something that keeps Maxinquaye tantalizing after it's become familiar, particularly because, like all good mysteries, there's no getting to the bottom of it, no matter how hard you try.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,204778,00.html (505 words)

	Tricky - Vulnerable - Review - Stylus Magazine
		So striking is Francavilla’s vocal resemblance to Topley-Bird that listening to her deliver Tricky’s fractured meta-sexual word associations leaves the same odd taste in your mouth that you’d get watching a guy dress his new girlfriend in his ex-wife’s clothes and pose for pictures with her.
		Another hoary tagline that Tricky has been attaching to the promotional campaign for Vulnerable is the assertion that this is his most “personal” album and that- for the first time- he’s revealing his true self (thus the title, I suppose).
		Tricky has found his own private California now, is unshackled from the machine against which he spent so long raging, and has a new chanteuse who’s a reasonably credible facsimile of her antecedent.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /review.php?ID=1066 (693 words)

	GameSpy.com - Reviews: SSX Tricky (Xbox)
		That's what SSX is. EA's cartooney snowboarder was a surprise hit last year when the Playstation 2 debuted, so it's not really surprising that they'd follow up with what looks like SSX 1.5 rather than a full sequel, it's only been a year after all.
		But anyone who's tried SSX Tricky knows that isn't the case, as Tricky packs in a lot of new stuff, tweaks the play a bit, and adds a lot of extras.
		Tricky includes all the original courses (with some interesting changes) and two brand new ones.
	archive.gamespy.com /reviews/december01/ssxtrickyxbox (722 words)

	"SSX TRICKY"/ a game review from Christian Spotlight
		"SSX Tricky" is a crazy and wild snowboarding game with loads of improved and challenging courses from the original "SSX" as well as two new ones, Alaska and Girabaldi.
		A hybrid mix of racing with stunts the board riders each have their own style, tricks, and attitude, which are extremely enjoyable to play and watch.
		In terms of graphics, "SSX Tricky" is remarkable, with phenomenal weather effects and lighting.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/games/2002/ssxtricky.html (493 words)

	Games : SSX Tricky
		EA Sports' SSX Tricky is truly a big-air affair, with insane circus-style stunts, near-vertical drops and no-holds-barred snowboarding action.
		SSX Tricky is a sequel to the successful SSX game which originally appeared on Play Station 2.
		The Nintendo GameCube version of SSX Tricky plays great, with a lightning-fast framerate and a slammin' soundtrack produced by the nimble fingers of Mix Master Mike and other real-world wax warriors.
	www.nintendo.com /games/gamepage/gamepage_main.jsp?gameId=611 (203 words)

	village voice > music > Tricky by James Hannaham
		Tricky's the kind of nigga, to paraphrase Chris Rock, who'll steal your shit and then come by the next day going, "Heard you got robbed!" Hence the nickname.
		The rock metier may welcome such indulgence, but Tricky also committed the sin of bitching and conspiracy-theorizing, barking self-importantly, "Success needs killing /Murder is media/Life is pain/Murder is fame." Rock stars who truck in paranoia often don't know whom to trust when the yes-men come calling.
		It's unclear whether shedding a few of his arty conceits is a good thing for Tricky in the long run, partially be cause his new Americanized model ups the sexism at the expense of Tricky's flexible ideas about gender roles.
	www.villagevoice.com /music/9937,hannaham2,8313,22.html (841 words)

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