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About Angels With Dirty Faces
Product Description Angels With Dirty Faces by Tricky Amazon.com What's really tricky is following up a debut as innovative and exquisite as 1995's Maxinquaye. Third time out (fourth if you count 1996's perplexing duets project Nearly God) and the artist formerly known as Adrian Thaws is still struggling to find the right balance of ambition and ability on Angels with Dirty Faces. The album has its moments: including a stirring collaboration with Polly Harvey on the bluesy "Broken Homes" and singer Martina Topley-Bird's eerie rendering of Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child" on "Carriage for Two." If you liked the claustrophobic mire of last year's Pre-Millennium Tension, Angels won't disappoint. Otherwise, you may find it a downer. -- Aidin Vaziri Review ... Angels retains the same woozy, hypnotic trance of his earlier work ... but the record also feels more adventurous, rhythmically and musically, than its predecessors. Break beats and rubbery jazz rhythms are woven into the tracks.... Verbally, Tricky mostly indulges in fidgety rants about deadly rap feuds, the media, and the corrupting ways of success. -- Entertainment Weekly ...Tricky's latest, Angels with Dirty Faces, is a flat-out blues album that, with a sound as modern as the most advanced hip hop, succeeds in consolidating his position as a music maverick.... It demonstrates the strengths of traditional songcraft ("Money Greedy," "The Moment I Feared," "You") yet is supported by brave, unorthodox music. -- Vibe ...Unlike the post-apocalyptic braggadocio of industrial electronics, there is no swagger in his tone, and no suggestion that only the strong survive. Just vocals that range from vague to nightmarish, plainly sung, as if by someone alone in a yellowed squat in the middle of the night, hugging his knees, trying to sort through the noise in his head, rocking, rocking, to a perfect new beat. -- Option Rather than the lush digital soundscapes of Maxinquaye or the shimmering desolation of Pre-Millennium Tension , Angels resounds with cellos, tremolo guitars, and bass clarinets, as well as the usual electro-wheezes and shuddering bass loops. Referencing the electric period of that other dark magus, Miles Davis, Angels may be remembered as the album on which Tricky rediscovered that ancient mystical implement known as "the drummer." The organic instrumentation adds to the sense of relentless propulsion, while the static and skewed phrasing in both Trickys loops and his vocals keep the music sexy, but in a dissipated, unhealthy way. -- Spin
